license
\ˈlaɪ.səns\
The verdict
“license” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #35,127. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,127
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Licence.
Corpus desk
Index FR-license · license · French
license · rank #35,127 · 10 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,127
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH libertinage
Nearest frequency peer: libertinage (-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 « license »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- lesbien
lesbien
64,877 corpus weight
- liane
liane
64,876 corpus weight
- libertinage
libertinage
64,875 corpus weight
- license
license
64,874 corpus weight
- Linky
Linky
64,873 corpus weight
- lires
lires
64,872 corpus weight
What this shows « license » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | license |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈlaɪ.səns\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #35,127 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « license »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around license (IPA \ˈlaɪ.səns\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #35,127 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for license, with forms such as "ilcense", "lciense", and "liccense". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "liens", "liesse", "liseuse", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is license, spelled L-I-C-E-N-S-E.
Definition
- 1Licence.
- 2Débit (d’un bar-tabac).
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ilcense
- lciense
- liccense
- licenes
- licennse
- licensse
- licesne
- licnese
- liecnse
- llicense
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of license - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "license", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).