redondance
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#37,517
in French word usage
Misspellings
15
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
redondance is aFrenchnoun. It means: Abondance de répétitions, de développements, d’ornements, généralement considérée comme excessive, critiquée pour sa lourdeur, son obscurité, son emphase. Pronounced \ʁə.dɔ̃.dɑ̃s\. Often confused with résonance.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | redondance |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁə.dɔ̃.dɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #37,517 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for redondance is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁə.dɔ̃.dɑ̃s\. Corpus data places it at rank #37,517 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 15 documented wrong-spelling variants for redondance, with forms such as "erdondance", "rdeondance", and "reddondance". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "résonance", 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 redondance, spelled R-E-D-O-N-D-A-N-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Abondance de répétitions, de développements, d’ornements, généralement considérée comme excessive, critiquée pour sa lourdeur, son obscurité, son emphase.
- 2Caractère d’un message, d’un code, présentant des répétitions, des éléments excédentaires par rapport au nombre de signes strictement nécessaires à la transmission de l’information et permettant ainsi une compréhension et une fiabilité meilleures.
- 3Doublement (ou plus) d’un système de contrôle, de pilotage, etc. pour améliorer sa fiabilité.
- 4Doublement (ou plus) d’un système de contrôle, de pilotage, etc. pour améliorer sa fiabilité.
Synonyms
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: erdondance,rdeondance,reddondance,rednodance,redodnance,redonadnce,redondacne,redondancce,redondanec,redondannce,redonddance,redondnace,redonndance,reodndance,rredondance
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for redondance
Misspelling Variants of "redondance"
Frequency rank: #37,517 in French
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Nearby French words
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