performance

\pɛʁ.fɔʁ.mɑ̃s\

/\pɛʁ.fɔʁ.mɑ̃s\/ noun

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The verdict

“performance” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,535. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#2,535
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
17
tracked misspellings
5
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Manière dont s’est comporté un cheval dans une course.

Corpus desk

Index FR-performance · performance · French

performance · rank #2,535 · 17 variants · 5 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #2,535
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 17 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH patients

Nearest frequency peer: patients (-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 « performance »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « performance » 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).

performance vs performant
82% similar
performance vs performants
82% similar
performance vs performante
91% similar

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

Key facts for performance
PropertyValue
Headwordperformance
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pɛʁ.fɔʁ.mɑ̃s\
Letters11
Frequency rank#2,535
Misspellings tracked17
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « performance »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).performancese 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 « patients » (#2,534), « plainte » (#2,536), « particuliers » (#2,533). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « performance » est au #2,535. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 17 spelling variants around performance (IPA \pɛʁ.fɔʁ.mɑ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,535 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 8 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for performance, with forms such as "eprformance", "pefrormance", and "perfformance". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "performant", "performants", "performante", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is performance, spelled P-E-R-F-O-R-M-A-N-C-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Manière dont s’est comporté un cheval dans une course.
  2. 2
    Manière dont s’est comporté un cheval dans une course.
  3. 3
    Manière dont s’est comporté un cheval dans une course.
  4. 4
    Ensemble évalué, voire chiffré, des potentialités d’un appareil.
  5. 5
    Capacité à remplir efficacement sa mission.
  6. 6
    Dans l’approche chomskyenne, un exemple d’utilisation du langage par un locuteur en situation, opposée à la compétence.
  7. 7
    Action artistique entreprise par un ou des artistes en présence du public.
  8. 8
    Évènement artistique qui recourt à différents modes d’expression dont l’exécution constitue l’œuvre elle-même.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Les parieurs, avant de jouer aux courses, étudient les performances précédentes des chevaux engagés.
  2. En raison des conditions météorologiques, les performances ont été très moyennes.

This word in other languages

performance(English)Vorführung(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • eprformance
  • pefrormance
  • perfformance
  • perfomrance
  • perforamnce
  • performacne
  • performancce
  • performanec
  • performannce
  • performmance
  • performnace
  • perforrmance
  • perfromance
  • perofrmance
  • perrformance
  • pperformance
  • preformance

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

eprformance2pefrormance2perfformance1perfomrance2perforamnce2performacne2performancce1performanec2
Edit distance from "performance"

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 "performance"?
"performance" is spelled P-E-R-F-O-R-M-A-N-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pɛʁ.fɔʁ.mɑ̃s\.
What does "performance" mean?
As a noun, "performance" means: Manière dont s’est comporté un cheval dans une course.
What words are commonly confused with "performance"?
"performance" is commonly confused with "performant", "performants", "performante". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "performance"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "performance" is \pɛʁ.fɔʁ.mɑ̃s\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "performance" come from?
"performance" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

composition#2,564personnelle#2,489normalement#2,487populations#2,590

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).

collaboration17 variantsofficiellement17 variantsspécialiste17 variantspersonnalité17 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list