consonance
\kɔ̃.sɔ.nɑ̃s\
The verdict
“consonance” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,242. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,242
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Accord de deux sons entendus simultanément et dont l’union plaît à l’oreille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-consonance · consonance · French
consonance · rank #42,242 · 15 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,242
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH conservez
Nearest frequency peer: conservez (-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 « consonance »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- consacrait
consacrait
57,762 corpus weight
- conseillons
conseillons
57,761 corpus weight
- conservez
conservez
57,760 corpus weight
- consonance
consonance
57,759 corpus weight
- conspiratio…
conspirations
57,758 corpus weight
- constitua
constitua
57,757 corpus weight
What this shows « consonance » 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 | consonance |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.sɔ.nɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #42,242 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « consonance »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around consonance (IPA \kɔ̃.sɔ.nɑ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #42,242 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for consonance, with forms such as "cconsonance", "cnosonance", and "connsonance". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "consonne", "constance", "convenance", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is consonance, spelled C-O-N-S-O-N-A-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Accord de deux sons entendus simultanément et dont l’union plaît à l’oreille.
- 2Uniformité, ressemblance de son dans la terminaison des mots.
- 3Ensemble de sons produisant une certaine impression.
- 4Accord de vibration, résonance entre deux êtres, idées ou objets.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how consonance appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y a des consonances parfaites et des consonances imparfaites : les parfaites sont l’unisson, la quarte, la quinte et l’octave ; les imparfaites sont la tierce et la sixte.
Les rimes sont des consonances de mots.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cconsonance
- cnosonance
- connsonance
- conosnance
- consnoance
- consoannce
- consonacne
- consonancce
- consonanec
- consonannce
- consonnace
- consonnance
- conssonance
- cosnonance
- ocnsonance
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of consonance - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Same letter count
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).