importance
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,182
in French word usage
Misspellings
15
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
importance is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ce qui fait qu’une chose est d’un grand intérêt, est considérable par elle-même, ou par les circonstances qui l’accompagnent, ou par les suites qu’elle peut avoir. Pronounced \ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tɑ̃s\. It ranks #1,182 in French word frequency. Often confused with important and importante.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | importance |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #1,182 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for importance is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tɑ̃s\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,182 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 15 documented wrong-spelling variants for importance, with forms such as "immportance", "imoprtance", and "imporatnce". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "important", "importante", "importants", 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 importance, spelled I-M-P-O-R-T-A-N-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ce qui fait qu’une chose est d’un grand intérêt, est considérable par elle-même, ou par les circonstances qui l’accompagnent, ou par les suites qu’elle peut avoir.
- 2Caractère de ce qui est considérable en nombre, en quantité, en volume, en dimension.
- 3Autorité, crédit, influence.
- 4Caractère de ceux qui montrent de l’orgueil, de la vanité et veulent paraître plus considérables qu’ils ne le sont réellement.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: immportance,imoprtance,imporatnce,imporrtance,importacne,importancce,importanec,importannce,importnace,importtance,impotrance,impportance,improtance,ipmortance,miportance
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for importance
Misspelling Variants of "importance"
Frequency rank: #1,182 in French
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