différence
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,060
in French word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
12
similar word pairs
différence is aFrenchnoun. It means: Objet de comparaison, de distinction d’une chose par rapport à une autre. Pronounced \di.fe.ʁɑ̃s\. It ranks #1,060 in French word frequency. Often confused with différent and différend.
| 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) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for différence is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \di.fe.ʁɑ̃s\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,060 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for différence, with forms such as "ddifférence", "dfiférence", and "difference". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "différent", "différend", "différents", 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 différence, spelled D-I-F-F-É-R-E-N-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddifférence,dfiférence,difference,diffréence,difféernce,différecne,différencce,différenec,différennce,différnece,différrence,diféfrence,diférence,idfférence
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "différence"
Frequency rank: #1,060 in French
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