indulgence
\ɛ̃.dyl.ʒɑ̃s\
The verdict
“indulgence” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,250. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,250
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Facilité à excuser et à pardonner les fautes, les défauts.
Corpus desk
Index FR-indulgence · indulgence · French
indulgence · rank #24,250 · 15 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,250
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH inflammatoires
Nearest frequency peer: inflammatoires (+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 « indulgence »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- incorporer
incorporer
75,755 corpus weight
- incursions
incursions
75,754 corpus weight
- indemniser
indemniser
75,753 corpus weight
- indulgence
indulgence
75,751 corpus weight
- inflammatoi…
inflammatoires
75,750 corpus weight
- inquiétait
inquiétait
75,748 corpus weight
What this shows « indulgence » 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 | indulgence |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.dyl.ʒɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #24,250 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « indulgence »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around indulgence (IPA \ɛ̃.dyl.ʒɑ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #24,250 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for indulgence, with forms such as "idnulgence", "inddulgence", and "indlugence". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "indulgent", "indulgents", "indigence", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is indulgence, spelled I-N-D-U-L-G-E-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Facilité à excuser et à pardonner les fautes, les défauts.
- 2Rémission des peines que les péchés méritent, accordée par l’Église sous certaines conditions.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how indulgence appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais ce qui, à meilleur droit, peut surprendre, c'est que le coup d’État ait pu trouver des juges enclins à l'indulgence, et même des admirateurs, non-seulement dans la partie du peuple la moins instruite, la plus aisée à abuser, la plus disposée à se passionner pour tout ce qui a les apparences de la force, mais encore dans des classes plus élevées, à qu…
Lorsque Maximilien demandait un comité de justice, le principe de la terreur était triomphant, et le parti de l'indulgence en très-faible minorité : […]. Au contraire Tallien se prononçait pour la justice, à une époque où les terroristes avaient perdu leur ancien pouvoir, et où presque tous les esprits étaient portés à l'indulgence.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- idnulgence
- inddulgence
- indlugence
- induglence
- indulegnce
- indulgecne
- indulgencce
- indulgenec
- indulgennce
- indulggence
- indulgnece
- indullgence
- inndulgence
- inudlgence
- nidulgence
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of indulgence - 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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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).