performance

/\pɛʁ.fɔʁ.mɑ̃s\/ noun

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.

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)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of performance in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  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.

This word in other languages

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"

eprformance11pefrormance11perfformance12perfomrance11perforamnce11performacne11performancce12performanec11
Misspelling Variants of "performance"

Frequency rank: #2,535 in French

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. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.