correspondance
Letters
14 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,234
in French word usage
Misspellings
20
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
correspondance is aFrenchnoun. It means: Relation de conformité. Pronounced \kɔ.ʁɛs.pɔ̃.dɑ̃s\. It ranks #5,234 in French word frequency. Often confused with correspondant and correspondants.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | correspondance |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.ʁɛs.pɔ̃.dɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #5,234 |
| Misspellings tracked | 20 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for correspondance is 14 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ.ʁɛs.pɔ̃.dɑ̃s\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,234 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 20 documented wrong-spelling variants for correspondance, with forms such as "ccorrespondance", "corerspondance", and "corespondance". 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, "correspondant", "correspondants", "correspondante", 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 correspondance, spelled C-O-R-R-E-S-P-O-N-D-A-N-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Relation de conformité.
- 2Relation que des personnes éloignées l’une de l’autre ont par commerce de lettres.
- 3Sorte de chronique de ce qui se passe dans les pays étrangers adressée aux journaux sous forme de lettres.
- 4Il désigne aussi, dans des publications périodiques, une rubrique où l’on insère des lettres, des communications de collaborateurs occasionnels.
- 5Ces lettres elles-mêmes.
- 6Relations, communications entre divers lieux entre deux lignes de chemin de fer ou entre deux moyens de transport.
- 7Analogie entre une ou plusieurs perceptions sensorielles, comme on en trouve chez Baudelaire et Rimbaud.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccorrespondance,corerspondance,corespondance,correpsondance,corresopndance,correspnodance,correspodnance,corresponadnce,correspondacne,correspondancce,correspondanec,correspondannce,corresponddance,correspondnace,corresponndance,corresppondance,corresspondance,corrsepondance,crorespondance,ocrrespondance
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for correspondance
Misspelling Variants of "correspondance"
Frequency rank: #5,234 in French
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