influences

/\ɛ̃.fly.ɑ̃s\/ noun

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#7,978

in French word usage

Misspellings

15

tracked variants

Confusables

9

similar word pairs

influences is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pluriel de influence. Pronounced \ɛ̃.fly.ɑ̃s\. It ranks #7,978 in French word frequency. Often confused with influents and influente.

Key facts for influences
PropertyValue
Headwordinfluences
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɛ̃.fly.ɑ̃s\
Letters10
Frequency rank#7,978
Misspellings tracked15
Confusable pairs9
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for influences is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ̃.fly.ɑ̃s\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,978 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Pluriel de influence.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for influences, with forms such as "ifnluences", "inffluences", and "infleunces". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "influents", "influente", "influentes", 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 influences, spelled I-N-F-L-U-E-N-C-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de influence.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ifnluences,inffluences,infleunces,inflluences,influecnes,influencces,influencess,influencse,influenecs,influennces,influneces,infulences,inlfuences,innfluences,nifluences

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for influences

Misspelling Variants of "influences"

ifnluences10inffluences11infleunces10inflluences11influecnes10influencces11influencess11influencse10
Misspelling Variants of "influences"

Frequency rank: #7,978 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "influences"?
"influences" is spelled I-N-F-L-U-E-N-C-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛ̃.fly.ɑ̃s\.
What does "influences" mean?
As a noun, "influences" means: Pluriel de influence.
What words are commonly confused with "influences"?
"influences" is commonly confused with "influents", "influente", "influentes". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "influences"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "influences" 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 "influences" come from?
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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.