phase
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,783
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
phase is aFrenchnoun. It means: États successifs par lesquels passent certains phénomènes de la vie, de l’histoire. Pronounced \fɑz\. It ranks #1,783 in French word frequency. Often confused with pose and place.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | phase |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɑz\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,783 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for phase is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fɑz\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,783 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 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for phase, with forms such as "hpase", "pahse", and "phaes". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pose", "place", "prise", 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 phase, spelled P-H-A-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1États successifs par lesquels passent certains phénomènes de la vie, de l’histoire.
- 2Cycle d’apparition de la lune et d’autres planètes, suivant la manière dont elles reçoivent la lumière du soleil au cours de leur révolution.
- 3Décalage angulaire entre des tensions ou signaux de forme sinusoïdale.
- 4Fil conducteur, également appelé fil de phase, qui transporte un courant alternatif provenant d’une même source, déphasé par rapport à une autre phase.
- 5Sortie indépendante (ayant son propre étage de stabilisation) d’une même alimentation continue. référence nécessaire (résoudre le problème)
- 6L’un des divers états de la matière qui coexistent à un instant donné.
- 7Différents états ou « variations » d'une « composante » d'un concept chez Gilles Deleuze et Félix Guattari.
- 8Génération d’un modèle de voiture caractérisée par des éléments (surtout stylistiques) spécifiques à une période donnée.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: hpase,pahse,phaes,phasse,phhase,phsae,pphase
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for phase
Misspelling Variants of "phase"
Frequency rank: #1,783 in French
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