innocence

\i.nɔ.sɑ̃s\

/\i.nɔ.sɑ̃s\/ noun

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The verdict

“innocence” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,075. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#7,075
frequency rank, French
3,561
“I” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
6
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - État de celui qui n’est pas coupable.

Corpus desk

Index FR-innocence · innocence · French

innocence · rank #7,075 · 11 variants · 6 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #7,075
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,561
  • PHOTO-FINISH infrastructure

Nearest frequency peer: infrastructure (-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 « innocence »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « innocence » 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).

innocence vs innocent
78% similar
innocence vs innocents
78% similar
innocence vs innocente
89% similar

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

Key facts for innocence
PropertyValue
Headwordinnocence
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\i.nɔ.sɑ̃s\
Letters9
Frequency rank#7,075
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « innocence »

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

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « infrastructure » (#7,074), « interroge » (#7,076), « infraction » (#7,073). Parmi 3,561 lemmes en « I », « innocence » est au #7,075. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around innocence (IPA \i.nɔ.sɑ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,075 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for innocence, with forms such as "inncoence", "innoccence", and "innocecne". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "innocent", "innocents", "innocente", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is innocence, spelled I-N-N-O-C-E-N-C-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    État de celui qui n’est pas coupable.
  2. 2
    État, qualité de celui qui ne commet pas le mal sciemment, qui est pur et candide.
  3. 3
    Qui n'est pas malfaisant, qui ne nuit pas.
  4. 4
    État de celui qui a l’esprit faible, borné.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Elle appelle le délinquant à son tribunal ; elle commence par lui administrer la bâtonnade pour lui rafraîchir la mémoire, et ensuite elle lui dit : Prouve ton innocence.
  2. On a reconnu son innocence.

Antonyms

culpabilité

This word in other languages

innocence(English)inocencia(Español)Unschuld(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • inncoence
  • innoccence
  • innocecne
  • innocencce
  • innocenec
  • innocennce
  • innocnece
  • innoecnce
  • inocence
  • inoncence
  • ninocence

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of innocence - 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.

inncoence2innoccence1innocecne2innocencce1innocenec2innocennce1innocnece2innoecnce2
Edit distance from "innocence"

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 "innocence"?
"innocence" is spelled I-N-N-O-C-E-N-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is \i.nɔ.sɑ̃s\.
What does "innocence" mean?
As a noun, "innocence" means: État de celui qui n’est pas coupable.
What words are commonly confused with "innocence"?
"innocence" is commonly confused with "innocent", "innocents", "innocente". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "innocence"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "innocence" is \i.nɔ.sɑ̃s\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "innocence" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

interroge#7,076mannequin#7,082féministe#7,061organique#7,093

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

imprimé11 variantsLambert11 variantshabituel11 variantsgentils11 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list