performances

/\pɛʁ.fɔʁ.mɑ̃s\/ noun

Letters

12 characters

Frequency Rank

#3,702

in French word usage

Misspellings

19

tracked variants

Confusables

4

similar word pairs

performances is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pluriel de performance. Pronounced \pɛʁ.fɔʁ.mɑ̃s\. It ranks #3,702 in French word frequency. Often confused with performants and performante.

Key facts for performances
PropertyValue
Headwordperformances
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pɛʁ.fɔʁ.mɑ̃s\
Letters12
Frequency rank#3,702
Misspellings tracked19
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for performances is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɛʁ.fɔʁ.mɑ̃s\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,702 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Pluriel de performance.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 19 documented wrong-spelling variants for performances, with forms such as "eprformances", "pefrormances", and "perfformances". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "performants", "performante", "performantes", 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 performances, spelled P-E-R-F-O-R-M-A-N-C-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de performance.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: eprformances,pefrormances,perfformances,perfomrances,perforamnces,performacnes,performancces,performancess,performancse,performanecs,performannces,performmances,performnaces,perforrmances,perfromances,perofrmances,perrformances,pperformances,preformances

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for performances

Misspelling Variants of "performances"

eprformances12pefrormances12perfformances13perfomrances12perforamnces12performacnes12performancces13performancess13
Misspelling Variants of "performances"

Frequency rank: #3,702 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "performances"?
"performances" is spelled P-E-R-F-O-R-M-A-N-C-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \pɛʁ.fɔʁ.mɑ̃s\.
What does "performances" mean?
As a noun, "performances" means: Pluriel de performance.
What words are commonly confused with "performances"?
"performances" is commonly confused with "performants", "performante", "performantes". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "performances"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "performances" 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 "performances" come from?
"performances" 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.