lance
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,441
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
lance is aFrenchnoun. It means: Arme à long bois, terminée par un fer pointu et qui, au Moyen Âge, était fort grosse vers la poignée. Pronounced \lɑ̃s\. It ranks #1,441 in French word frequency. Often confused with lune and lave.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lance |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,441 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for lance is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lɑ̃s\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,441 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for lance, with forms such as "alnce", "lacne", and "lancce". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "lune", "lave", "line", 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 lance, spelled L-A-N-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Arme à long bois, terminée par un fer pointu et qui, au Moyen Âge, était fort grosse vers la poignée.
- 2Longue pique dont certains corps de cavalerie en France ou à l’étranger étaient armés.
- 3Homme d’armes armé d’une lance, lancier.
- 4Toutes sortes d’objets qui en rappellent la forme.
- 5Toutes sortes d’objets qui en rappellent la forme.
- 6Tuyau terminé par un embout solide plus ou moins long et utilisé pour arroser.
- 7Meuble représentant l’arme du même nom dans les armoiries. Elle est généralement représentée sous la forme d'une lance de tournoi. À rapprocher de dard, épieu, javelot, lance de tournoi et pique.
- 8Pièce du jeu de shōgi, qui avance d’une ou de plusieurs cases, toujours vers l’avant, et qui doit être promue une fois arrivée sur la dernière rangée.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: alnce,lacne,lancce,lanec,lannce,llance,lnace
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for lance
Misspelling Variants of "lance"
Frequency rank: #1,441 in French
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