performance
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,535
in French word usage
Misspellings
17
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
performance is aFrenchnoun. It means: Manière dont s’est comporté un cheval dans une course. Pronounced \pɛʁ.fɔʁ.mɑ̃s\. It ranks #2,535 in French word frequency. Often confused with performant and performants.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | performance |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.fɔʁ.mɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #2,535 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for performance is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɛʁ.fɔʁ.mɑ̃s\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,535 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 17 documented wrong-spelling variants for performance, with forms such as "eprformance", "pefrormance", and "perfformance". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "performant", "performants", "performante", 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 performance, spelled P-E-R-F-O-R-M-A-N-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Manière dont s’est comporté un cheval dans une course.
- 2Manière dont s’est comporté un cheval dans une course.
- 3Manière dont s’est comporté un cheval dans une course.
- 4Ensemble évalué, voire chiffré, des potentialités d’un appareil.
- 5Capacité à remplir efficacement sa mission.
- 6Dans l’approche chomskyenne, un exemple d’utilisation du langage par un locuteur en situation, opposée à la compétence.
- 7Action artistique entreprise par un ou des artistes en présence du public.
- 8Évènement artistique qui recourt à différents modes d’expression dont l’exécution constitue l’œuvre elle-même.
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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
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for performance
Misspelling Variants of "performance"
Frequency rank: #2,535 in French
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Nearby French words
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