différence
\di.fe.ʁɑ̃s\
The verdict
“différence” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,060. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,060
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Objet de comparaison, de distinction d’une chose par rapport à une autre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-difference · différence · French
différence · rank #1,060 · 14 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,060
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH course
Nearest frequency peer: course (-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 « différence »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- concours
concours
98,944 corpus weight
- couple
couple
98,943 corpus weight
- course
course
98,942 corpus weight
- différence
différence
98,941 corpus weight
- fonds
fonds
98,939 corpus weight
- fou
fou
98,938 corpus weight
What this shows « différence » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | différence |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \di.fe.ʁɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #1,060 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « différence »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around différence (IPA \di.fe.ʁɑ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,060 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for différence, with forms such as "ddifférence", "dfiférence", and "difference". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "différent", "différend", "différents", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is différence, spelled D-I-F-F-É-R-E-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Objet de comparaison, de distinction d’une chose par rapport à une autre.
- 2Résultat de la soustraction.
- 3Écart qui existe entre le prix d’achat et le prix de vente, ou entre le prix de vente et celui de rachat.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how différence appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Chez le vertébré comme chez l’annelé, nous voyons d’ailleurs les fils ressembler au père ou à la mère, aux différences individuelles près.
Car il y a plus de différence entre telle et telle tribu peau-rouge, qu'entre un Arabe et un Norvégien, un Anglais et un Turc !
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddifférence
- dfiférence
- difference
- diffréence
- difféernce
- différecne
- différencce
- différenec
- différennce
- différnece
- différrence
- diféfrence
- diférence
- idfférence
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of différence - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).