correspondance
\kɔ.ʁɛs.pɔ̃.dɑ̃s\
The verdict
“correspondance” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #5,234 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #5,234
- frequency rank, French
- 14
- letters
- 20
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Relation de conformité.
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 | 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) |
Where “correspondance” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for correspondance is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, 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 generated misspelling index lists 20 likely wrong-spelling variants for correspondance, with forms such as "ccorrespondance", "corerspondance", and "corespondance". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "correspondant", "correspondants", "correspondante", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is correspondance, spelled C-O-R-R-E-S-P-O-N-D-A-N-C-E.
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.
This word in other languages
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
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of correspondance - 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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Using “correspondance”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-O-R-R-E-S-P-O-N-D-A-N-C-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \kɔ.ʁɛs.pɔ̃.dɑ̃s\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “correspondant” - see the side-by-side comparison. correspondance vs correspondant
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.