dépense
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,855
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
dépense is aFrenchnoun. It means: L’argent qu’on emploie à quelque chose que ce puisse être. Pronounced \de.pɑ̃s\. It ranks #4,855 in French word frequency. Often confused with dépose and devenue.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dépense |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.pɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #4,855 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for dépense is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \de.pɑ̃s\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,855 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for dépense, with forms such as "ddépense", "depense", and "dpéense". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "dépose", "devenue", "détente", 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 dépense, spelled D-É-P-E-N-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1L’argent qu’on emploie à quelque chose que ce puisse être.
- 2Compte où se trouve porté ce qui a été dépensé ou déboursé.
- 3Emploi que l’on fait de son temps, de ses efforts pour obtenir quelque chose.
- 4Lieu où l’on reçoit et où l’on distribue les objets en nature, où se fait le paiement des gens de service et des fournisseurs, etc., dans une communauté, dans un internat scolaire.
- 5Pièce où l'on serre les provisions de bouche ; garde-manger.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddépense,depense,dpéense,déepnse,dépenes,dépennse,dépensse,dépesne,dépnese,déppense,édpense
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for dépense
Misspelling Variants of "dépense"
Frequency rank: #4,855 in French
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "dépense"?
What does "dépense" mean?
What words are commonly confused with "dépense"?
How do you pronounce "dépense"?
What language does "dépense" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter D in our French index: