espérance

/\ɛs.pe.ʁɑ̃s\/ noun

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.

Key facts for espérance
PropertyValue
Headwordespérance
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɛs.pe.ʁɑ̃s\
Letters9
Frequency rank#5,657
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of espérance in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

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

  1. 1
    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.
  2. 2
    Personne ou chose sur laquelle on fonde son espérance.
  3. 3
    Biens qu’on attend d’un héritage.
  4. 4
    Une des trois vertus théologales, celle par laquelle les chrétiens espèrent suivre Dieu, par les mérites de Jésus-Christ.
  5. 5
    Nombre 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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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: epsérance,esperance,esppérance,espréance,espéarnce,espéracne,espérancce,espéranec,espérannce,espérnace,espérrance,esspérance,eséprance,sepérance

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for espérance

Misspelling Variants of "espérance"

epsérance9esperance9esppérance10espréance9espéarnce9espéracne9espérancce10espéranec9
Misspelling Variants of "espérance"

Frequency rank: #5,657 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "espérance"?
"espérance" is spelled E-S-P-É-R-A-N-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛs.pe.ʁɑ̃s\.
What does "espérance" mean?
As a noun, "espérance" 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.
What words are commonly confused with "espérance"?
"espérance" is commonly confused with "espérant", "espéranto", "esperanza". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "espérance"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "espérance" is \ɛs.pe.ʁɑ̃s\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "espérance" come from?
"espérance" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.