correspondance

\kɔ.ʁɛs.pɔ̃.dɑ̃s\

/\kɔ.ʁɛs.pɔ̃.dɑ̃s\/ noun

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The verdict

“correspondance” has 20 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,234. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#5,234
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
20
tracked misspellings
5
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relation de conformité.

Corpus desk

Index FR-correspondance · correspondance · French

correspondance · rank #5,234 · 20 variants · 5 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #5,234
  • LEN-MEGA 14 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 20 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH contenus

Nearest frequency peer: contenus (-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 « correspondance »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « correspondance » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

correspondance vs correspondant
86% similar
correspondance vs correspondants
86% similar
correspondance vs correspondante
93% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for correspondance
PropertyValue
Headwordcorrespondance
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kɔ.ʁɛs.pɔ̃.dɑ̃s\
Letters14
Frequency rank#5,234
Misspellings tracked20
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « correspondance »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.correspondancese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « contenus » (#5,233), « coupes » (#5,235), « connerie » (#5,232). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « correspondance » est au #5,234. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 20 spelling variants around correspondance (IPA \kɔ.ʁɛs.pɔ̃.dɑ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,234 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 7 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

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

  1. 1
    Relation de conformité.
  2. 2
    Relation que des personnes éloignées l’une de l’autre ont par commerce de lettres.
  3. 3
    Sorte de chronique de ce qui se passe dans les pays étrangers adressée aux journaux sous forme de lettres.
  4. 4
    Il désigne aussi, dans des publications périodiques, une rubrique où l’on insère des lettres, des communications de collaborateurs occasionnels.
  5. 5
    Ces lettres elles-mêmes.
  6. 6
    Relations, communications entre divers lieux entre deux lignes de chemin de fer ou entre deux moyens de transport.
  7. 7
    Analogie entre une ou plusieurs perceptions sensorielles, comme on en trouve chez Baudelaire et Rimbaud.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how correspondance appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Le tableau suivant indique la correspondance entre la densité de la solution et sa teneur pondérale en tétrachlorure de carbone et en benzol.
  2. Entre l’ancien et le nouveau cadastre, le système de numérotation des parcelles a changé, ce qui oblige à se reporter aux tables de correspondance figurant sur les premières matrices du « nouveau cadastre » (feuillets roses), pour suivre l'identité d'une parcelle.

This word in other languages

correspondence(English)correspondencia(Español)Übereinstimmung(Deutsch)responsabilidade(Português)

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.

ccorrespondance1corerspondance2corespondance1correpsondance2corresopndance2correspnodance2correspodnance2corresponadnce2
Edit distance from "correspondance"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "correspondance"?
"correspondance" is spelled C-O-R-R-E-S-P-O-N-D-A-N-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ.ʁɛs.pɔ̃.dɑ̃s\.
What does "correspondance" mean?
As a noun, "correspondance" means: Relation de conformité.
What words are commonly confused with "correspondance"?
"correspondance" is commonly confused with "correspondant", "correspondants", "correspondante". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "correspondance"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "correspondance" is \kɔ.ʁɛs.pɔ̃.dɑ̃s\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "correspondance" come from?
"correspondance" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "correspondance", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 14 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

réglementation#5,287tranquillement#5,300parlementaires#5,162exceptionnelle#5,130

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (20 here; floor ≥5).

remboursement20 variantsinterventions20 variantsrenseignement20 variantsdéplacements20 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list