errance
\ɛ.ʁɑ̃s\
The verdict
“errance” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,356. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,356
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tendance à des déambulations durables, sur de longues distances, sans autre but que le voyage lui-même.
Corpus desk
Index FR-errance · errance · French
errance · rank #26,356 · 8 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,356
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH ergonomie
Nearest frequency peer: ergonomie (-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 « errance »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- entreprit
entreprit
73,648 corpus weight
- EPR
EPR
73,647 corpus weight
- ergonomie
ergonomie
73,646 corpus weight
- errance
errance
73,645 corpus weight
- este
este
73,644 corpus weight
- eucharistie
eucharistie
73,642 corpus weight
What this shows « errance » 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 | errance |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ.ʁɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #26,356 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « errance »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around errance (IPA \ɛ.ʁɑ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #26,356 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for errance, with forms such as "erance", "erarnce", and "erracne". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "errant", "erroné", "étrange", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is errance, spelled E-R-R-A-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Tendance à des déambulations durables, sur de longues distances, sans autre but que le voyage lui-même.
- 2Progression au hasard, sans objectif défini ; rallongement et digressions apparemment inutiles.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how errance appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il n’est pas question de pardon. « Seules errances d’amour sont dignes d’un pardon », comme l’écrivait Cervantès.
Senta, l’héroïne du drame de Richard Wagner, amoureuse du Hollandais volant, se noie volontairement pour faire lever la condamnation à l’errance éternelle qui pèse sur le maudit.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erance
- erarnce
- erracne
- errancce
- erranec
- errannce
- errnace
- rerance
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of errance - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).