connaissance
Letters
12 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,226
in French word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
connaissance is aFrenchnoun. It means: Exercice de la faculté par laquelle on connaît et on distingue les objets. Pronounced \kɔ.nɛ.sɑ̃s\. It ranks #1,226 in French word frequency. Often confused with connaissant and connaissances.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | connaissance |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.nɛ.sɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #1,226 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for connaissance is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ.nɛ.sɑ̃s\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,226 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for connaissance, with forms such as "cconnaissance", "cnonaissance", and "conaissance". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "connaissant", "connaissances", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is connaissance, spelled C-O-N-N-A-I-S-S-A-N-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Exercice de la faculté par laquelle on connaît et on distingue les objets.
- 2Idée, notion, concept qu’on a de quelque chose, de quelqu’un ; le fait de le connaître.
- 3En parlant d'un tribunal ou d'un juge, droit de traiter certaines affaires.
- 4Personne connue, avec laquelle on a des liaisons ou des relations.
- 5Savoir, instruction, lumières acquises.
- 6Relation privilégiée avec les choses de la sorcellerie.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cconnaissance,cnonaissance,conaissance,conanissance,connaisance,connaisasnce,connaissacne,connaissancce,connaissanec,connaissannce,connaissnace,connasisance,conniassance,ocnnaissance
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for connaissance
Misspelling Variants of "connaissance"
Frequency rank: #1,226 in French
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Nearby French words
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