dépendance
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,654
in French word usage
Misspellings
16
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
dépendance is aFrenchnoun. It means: Tout accessoire d’une chose principale, de tout ce qui tient ou se rattache à une chose sans la constituer essentiellement. Pronounced \de.pɑ̃.dɑ̃s\. It ranks #5,654 in French word frequency. Often confused with dépendant and dépendante.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dépendance |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.pɑ̃.dɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #5,654 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for dépendance is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \de.pɑ̃.dɑ̃s\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,654 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 16 documented wrong-spelling variants for dépendance, with forms such as "ddépendance", "dependance", and "dpéendance". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "dépendant", "dépendante", "dépendants", 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 dépendance, spelled D-É-P-E-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
- 1Tout accessoire d’une chose principale, de tout ce qui tient ou se rattache à une chose sans la constituer essentiellement.
- 2Accessoires d’un domaine.
- 3Terre qui dépendaient d’une autre.
- 4Rapports qui lient certaines choses, certains êtres, et qui les rendent nécessaires les uns par rapport aux autres.
- 5Ce qui traite des rapports d’un mot ou d’un groupe de mots avec tel ou tel mot dont il dépend.
- 6Sujétion ; subordination.
- 7Sujétion à un stupéfiant.
- 8État d’une personne qui ne peut pas (ou très difficilement) effectuer seule les actes essentiels de la vie courante, et qui nécessite pour cela une assistance quotidienne.
- 9Construction annexe qui dépend d'un bâtiment principal.
- 10Bibliothèque ou programme tiers utilisé par le programme courant.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddépendance,dependance,dpéendance,déepndance,dépednance,dépenadnce,dépendacne,dépendancce,dépendanec,dépendannce,dépenddance,dépendnace,dépenndance,dépnedance,déppendance,édpendance
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for dépendance
Misspelling Variants of "dépendance"
Frequency rank: #5,654 in French
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Nearby French words
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