espace

\ɛs.pas\

/\ɛs.pas\/ noun

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The verdict

“espace” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #739. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#739
frequency rank, French
3,255
“E” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
17
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Étendue indéfinie.

Corpus desk

Index FR-espace · espace · French

espace · rank #739 · 8 variants · 17 confusables

  • FREQ-CORE #739
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,255
  • PHOTO-FINISH directeur

Nearest frequency peer: directeur (-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 « espace »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « espace » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

espace vs espère
67% similar
espace vs espèce
83% similar
espace vs essaie
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for espace
PropertyValue
Headwordespace
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɛs.pas\
Letters6
Frequency rank#739
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs17
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « espace »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.espacese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « directeur » (#738), « liberté » (#740), « différents » (#737). Parmi 3,255 lemmes en « E », « espace » est au #739. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around espace (IPA \ɛs.pas\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #739 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 9 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for espace, with forms such as "epsace", "esapce", and "espacce". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 17 confusable-pair relationships, "espère", "espèce", "essaie", 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 its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is espace, spelled E-S-P-A-C-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Étendue indéfinie.
  2. 2
    Étendue limitée et ordinairement superficielle.
  3. 3
    Endroit.
  4. 4
    (Avec complément de nom ou apposition) Zone plus ou moins grande et plus ou moins définie d'un ensemble, désignée par l'usage qu'on en fait.
  5. 5
    Étendue qui embrasse l’univers, vide interplanétaire, intersidéral et intergalactique.
  6. 6
    Milieu abstrait.
  7. 7
    Lieu créés par l’imagination hors du monde réel, pour y placer des chimères.
  8. 8
    Étendue du temps.
  9. 9
    Intervalle blanc qui se trouve dans la portée.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how espace appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Cet animal s'oriente dans l’espace par écholocation : il émet des sons de très haute fréquence et utilise l’écho renvoyé par les obstacles ou les proies pour les localiser.
  2. Le temps et l’espace. — L’espace et la durée.

This word in other languages

space(English)espacio(Español)Raum(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • epsace
  • esapce
  • espacce
  • espaec
  • espcae
  • esppace
  • esspace
  • sepace

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of espace - 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.

epsace2esapce2espacce1espaec2espcae2esppace1esspace1sepace2
Edit distance from "espace"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "espace"?
"espace" is spelled E-S-P-A-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛs.pas\.
What does "espace" mean?
As a noun, "espace" means: Étendue indéfinie.
What words are commonly confused with "espace"?
"espace" is commonly confused with "espère", "espèce", "essaie". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "espace"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "espace" is \ɛs.pas\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "espace" come from?
"espace" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "espace", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

mariage8 variantspassage8 variantsannonce8 variantsmoyenne8 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list