connivence
\kɔ.ni.vɑ̃s\
The verdict
“connivence” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,918. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,918
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Complicité par tolérance et dissimulation d’un mal qu’on doit ou qu’on peut empêcher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-connivence · connivence · French
connivence · rank #24,918 · 13 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #24,918
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH conférencier
Nearest frequency peer: conférencier (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « connivence »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- concurrente
concurrente
75,086 corpus weight
- configurati…
configurations
75,085 corpus weight
- conférencier
conférencier
75,084 corpus weight
- connivence
connivence
75,083 corpus weight
- constitutio…
constitutionnels
75,082 corpus weight
- contactée
contactée
75,081 corpus weight
What this shows « connivence » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | connivence |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.ni.vɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #24,918 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « connivence »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around connivence (IPA \kɔ.ni.vɑ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #24,918 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for connivence, with forms such as "cconnivence", "cnonivence", and "coninvence". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "confidence", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is connivence, spelled C-O-N-N-I-V-E-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Complicité par tolérance et dissimulation d’un mal qu’on doit ou qu’on peut empêcher.
- 2Entente secrète ou tacite, intelligence avec quelqu’un.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how connivence appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Plus la lutte contre les schismatiques s’aggrave, plus l’Église s’acharne contre les juifs, qu’elle soupçonne d’être de connivence avec les hérétiques.
C’est vrai qu’il [Napoléon Bonaparte] a eu une légende. C’est vrai qu’il y avait le chauvinisme qui se satisfaisait, en pensant à toute la gloire que la France avait conquise… C’est vrai aussi que cette légende s’appuyait sur de sombres profondeurs humaines, avec cette connivence qui est en nous à l’égard de la guerre et de la mort.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cconnivence
- cnonivence
- coninvence
- conivence
- connievnce
- connivecne
- connivencce
- connivenec
- connivennce
- connivnece
- connivvence
- connvience
- ocnnivence
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of connivence - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).