influence

/\ɛ̃.fly.ɑ̃s\/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,525

in French word usage

Misspellings

13

tracked variants

Confusables

9

similar word pairs

influence is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action d’une personne, d’une circonstance ou d’une chose qui influe sur une autre. Pronounced \ɛ̃.fly.ɑ̃s\. It ranks #1,525 in French word frequency. Often confused with influent and influents.

Key facts for influence
PropertyValue
Headwordinfluence
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɛ̃.fly.ɑ̃s\
Letters9
Frequency rank#1,525
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs9
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for influence is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ̃.fly.ɑ̃s\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,525 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 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for influence, with forms such as "ifnluence", "inffluence", and "infleunce". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "influent", "influents", "influente", 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 influence, spelled I-N-F-L-U-E-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
    Action d’une personne, d’une circonstance ou d’une chose qui influe sur une autre.
  2. 2
    Autorité, crédit, ascendant.
  3. 3
    Influence commerciale pratiquée par les influenceurs commerciaux.
  4. 4
    Effet exercé par une œuvre ou un auteur sur un autre, dans une autre littérature.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ifnluence,inffluence,infleunce,inflluence,influecne,influencce,influenec,influennce,influnece,infulence,inlfuence,innfluence,nifluence

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for influence

Misspelling Variants of "influence"

ifnluence9inffluence10infleunce9inflluence10influecne9influencce10influenec9influennce10
Misspelling Variants of "influence"

Frequency rank: #1,525 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "influence"?
"influence" is spelled I-N-F-L-U-E-N-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛ̃.fly.ɑ̃s\.
What does "influence" mean?
As a noun, "influence" means: Action d’une personne, d’une circonstance ou d’une chose qui influe sur une autre.
What words are commonly confused with "influence"?
"influence" is commonly confused with "influent", "influents", "influente". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "influence"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "influence" is \ɛ̃.fly.ɑ̃s\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "influence" come from?
"influence" 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. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.