influence

\ɛ̃.fly.ɑ̃s\

/\ɛ̃.fly.ɑ̃s\/ noun

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The verdict

“influence” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,525. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#1,525
frequency rank, French
3,561
“I” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
9
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’une personne, d’une circonstance ou d’une chose qui influe sur une autre.

Corpus desk

Index FR-influence · influence · French

influence · rank #1,525 · 13 variants · 9 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #1,525
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,561
  • PHOTO-FINISH imagine

Nearest frequency peer: imagine (-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 « influence »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « influence » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

influence vs influent
78% similar
influence vs influents
78% similar
influence vs influente
89% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

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)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « influence »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.influencese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « imagine » (#1,524), « lecture » (#1,526), « maman » (#1,527). Parmi 3,561 lemmes en « I », « influence » est au #1,525. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around influence (IPA \ɛ̃.fly.ɑ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,525 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for influence, with forms such as "ifnluence", "inffluence", and "infleunce". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. 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.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is influence, spelled I-N-F-L-U-E-N-C-E.

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.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how influence appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Alors que les citoyens continueront de plaider pour et contre les zones à faibles émissions, leur mise en œuvre est un exemple clair de l' influence que l'UE peut avoir au niveau national, local et personnel.
  2. Le salon, ce noyau de conservateurs appartenant à tous les partis, et qui grossissait journellement, eut bientôt une grande influence. Par la diversité de ses membres, et surtout grâce à l’impulsion secrète que chacun d’eux recevait du clergé, il devint le centre réactionnaire qui rayonna sur Plassans entier.

This word in other languages

influence(English)influencia(Español)Einwirkung(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ifnluence
  • inffluence
  • infleunce
  • inflluence
  • influecne
  • influencce
  • influenec
  • influennce
  • influnece
  • infulence
  • inlfuence
  • innfluence
  • nifluence

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of influence - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

ifnluence2inffluence1infleunce2inflluence1influecne2influencce1influenec2influennce1
Edit distance from "influence"

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.

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's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "influence", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list