espérance
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,657
in French word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
espérance is aFrenchnoun. It means: Disposition à espérer ou contenu de cette disposition. Se différencie du synonyme « espoir » qui s'inscrit dans le quotidien humain, matériel par sa dimension eschatologique. Pronounced \ɛs.pe.ʁɑ̃s\. It ranks #5,657 in French word frequency. Often confused with espérant and espéranto.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | espérance |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛs.pe.ʁɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #5,657 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for espérance is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛs.pe.ʁɑ̃s\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,657 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 generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for espérance, with forms such as "epsérance", "esperance", and "esppérance". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "espérant", "espéranto", "esperanza", 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 espérance, spelled E-S-P-É-R-A-N-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Disposition à espérer ou contenu de cette disposition. Se différencie du synonyme « espoir » qui s'inscrit dans le quotidien humain, matériel par sa dimension eschatologique.
- 2Personne ou chose sur laquelle on fonde son espérance.
- 3Biens qu’on attend d’un héritage.
- 4Une des trois vertus théologales, celle par laquelle les chrétiens espèrent suivre Dieu, par les mérites de Jésus-Christ.
- 5Nombre réel associé à une variable aléatoire réelle X définie sur un espace probabilisé. À ne pas confondre avec la moyenne statistique.
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Also misspelled as: epsérance,esperance,esppérance,espréance,espéarnce,espéracne,espérancce,espéranec,espérannce,espérnace,espérrance,esspérance,eséprance,sepérance
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Misspelling Variants of "espérance"
Frequency rank: #5,657 in French
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