conscience
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,513
in French word usage
Misspellings
15
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
conscience is aFrenchnoun. It means: Subjectivité ; sentiment intime de présence à soi, de vivre l’expérience actuelle du réel, d’être le sujet de nos perceptions, émotions, pensées… Pronounced \kɔ̃.sjɑ̃s\. It ranks #1,513 in French word frequency. Often confused with conscient and consciente.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | conscience |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.sjɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #1,513 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for conscience is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃.sjɑ̃s\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,513 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 15 documented wrong-spelling variants for conscience, with forms such as "cconscience", "cnoscience", and "concsience". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "conscient", "consciente", "conscients", and more, 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 conscience, spelled C-O-N-S-C-I-E-N-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Subjectivité ; sentiment intime de présence à soi, de vivre l’expérience actuelle du réel, d’être le sujet de nos perceptions, émotions, pensées…
- 2Image de soi-même ; conscience de soi.
- 3État de veille dans lequel l’on perçoit le déroulement de sa vie.
- 4Éthique, sentiment du bien et du mal.
- 5Qui s'oppose à la conscience.
- 6Connaissance que nous avons de notre propre existence et des phénomènes de sensibilité et d’activité qui se succèdent en nous.
- 7Connaissance que nous avons de nous-mêmes par le sentiment intime.
- 8Personnalité remarquable par sa droiture, ses idées et sa conduite exemplaire.
- 9Travail fait à l’heure pour lequel on s’en rapportait à la conscience de l’ouvrier.
- 10Pièce du vilebrequin servant à appliquer la pression. Cette pièce pouvait faire partie de l’outil (vilebrequin à conscience intégrée) ou être attachée à la ceinture de l’artisan (vilebrequin à conscience ventrale).
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cconscience,cnoscience,concsience,connscience,consccience,consceince,consciecne,consciencce,conscienec,consciennce,conscinece,consicence,consscience,cosncience,ocnscience
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for conscience
Misspelling Variants of "conscience"
Frequency rank: #1,513 in French
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Nearby French words
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