phase

/\fɑz\/ noun

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.

Key facts for phase
PropertyValue
Headwordphase
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\fɑz\
Letters5
Frequency rank#1,783
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    États successifs par lesquels passent certains phénomènes de la vie, de l’histoire.
  2. 2
    Cycle d’apparition de la lune et d’autres planètes, suivant la manière dont elles reçoivent la lumière du soleil au cours de leur révolution.
  3. 3
    Décalage angulaire entre des tensions ou signaux de forme sinusoïdale.
  4. 4
    Fil conducteur, également appelé fil de phase, qui transporte un courant alternatif provenant d’une même source, déphasé par rapport à une autre phase.
  5. 5
    Sortie indépendante (ayant son propre étage de stabilisation) d’une même alimentation continue. référence nécessaire (résoudre le problème)
  6. 6
    L’un des divers états de la matière qui coexistent à un instant donné.
  7. 7
    Différents états ou « variations » d'une « composante » d'un concept chez Gilles Deleuze et Félix Guattari.
  8. 8
    Génération 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"

hpase5pahse5phaes5phasse6phhase6phsae5pphase6
Misspelling Variants of "phase"

Frequency rank: #1,783 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "phase"?
"phase" is spelled P-H-A-S-E. The IPA pronunciation is \fɑz\.
What does "phase" mean?
As a noun, "phase" means: États successifs par lesquels passent certains phénomènes de la vie, de l’histoire.
What words are commonly confused with "phase"?
"phase" is commonly confused with "pose", "place", "prise". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "phase"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "phase" is \fɑz\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "phase" come from?
"phase" 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.