constance
\kɔ̃s.tɑ̃s\
The verdict
“constance” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,142. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,142
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fermeté de l’âme qui lui permet de résister aux choses capables de l’ébranler, telles que la douleur, l’adversité, les tourments, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-constance · constance · French
constance · rank #9,142 · 14 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,142
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH conquis
Nearest frequency peer: conquis (-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 « constance »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- conformité
conformité
90,862 corpus weight
- connectés
connectés
90,861 corpus weight
- conquis
conquis
90,860 corpus weight
- constance
constance
90,859 corpus weight
- convenu
convenu
90,858 corpus weight
- craquer
craquer
90,857 corpus weight
What this shows « constance » 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 | constance |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃s.tɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #9,142 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « constance »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around constance (IPA \kɔ̃s.tɑ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,142 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for constance, with forms such as "cconstance", "cnostance", and "connstance". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "constate", "constant", "constante", and more, 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is constance, spelled C-O-N-S-T-A-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Fermeté de l’âme qui lui permet de résister aux choses capables de l’ébranler, telles que la douleur, l’adversité, les tourments, etc.
- 2Persévérance.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how constance appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et la brigade demeura en Belgique. […]. Les plus frénétiques arrosages de shrapnells et de marmites n’ébranlaient pas sa constance.
Non, non, la constance n’est bonne que pour des ridicules ; toutes les belles ont droit de nous charmer, et l’avantage d'être rencontrée la première ne doit pas dérober aux autres les justes prétentions qu’elles ont toutes sur nos cœurs.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cconstance
- cnostance
- connstance
- consatnce
- consstance
- constacne
- constancce
- constanec
- constannce
- constnace
- consttance
- contsance
- cosntance
- ocnstance
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of constance - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "constance", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).