conscience

/\kɔ̃.sjɑ̃s\/ noun

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.

Key facts for conscience
PropertyValue
Headwordconscience
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kɔ̃.sjɑ̃s\
Letters10
Frequency rank#1,513
Misspellings tracked15
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of conscience in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Subjectivité ; sentiment intime de présence à soi, de vivre l’expérience actuelle du réel, d’être le sujet de nos perceptions, émotions, pensées…
  2. 2
    Image de soi-même ; conscience de soi.
  3. 3
    État de veille dans lequel l’on perçoit le déroulement de sa vie.
  4. 4
    Éthique, sentiment du bien et du mal.
  5. 5
    Qui s'oppose à la conscience.
  6. 6
    Connaissance que nous avons de notre propre existence et des phénomènes de sensibilité et d’activité qui se succèdent en nous.
  7. 7
    Connaissance que nous avons de nous-mêmes par le sentiment intime.
  8. 8
    Personnalité remarquable par sa droiture, ses idées et sa conduite exemplaire.
  9. 9
    Travail fait à l’heure pour lequel on s’en rapportait à la conscience de l’ouvrier.
  10. 10
    Pièce 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).

Antonyms

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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"

cconscience11cnoscience10concsience10connscience11consccience11consceince10consciecne10consciencce11
Misspelling Variants of "conscience"

Frequency rank: #1,513 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "conscience"?
"conscience" is spelled C-O-N-S-C-I-E-N-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ̃.sjɑ̃s\.
What does "conscience" mean?
As a noun, "conscience" means: Subjectivité ; sentiment intime de présence à soi, de vivre l’expérience actuelle du réel, d’être le sujet de nos perceptions, émotions, pensées…
What words are commonly confused with "conscience"?
"conscience" is commonly confused with "conscient", "consciente", "conscients". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "conscience"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "conscience" is \kɔ̃.sjɑ̃s\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "conscience" come from?
"conscience" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.