relance

\ʁə.lɑ̃s\

/\ʁə.lɑ̃s\/ noun

The verdict

“relance” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,230. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#7,230
frequency rank, French
5,742
“R” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
15
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de relancer, de mettre un enjeu supérieur.

Corpus desk

Index FR-relance · relance · French

relance · rank #7,230 · 10 variants · 15 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #7,230
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH recruter

Nearest frequency peer: recruter (-1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « relance »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « relance » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

relance vs relayé
57% similar
relance vs relaté
57% similar
relance vs relaxé
57% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for relance
PropertyValue
Headwordrelance
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁə.lɑ̃s\
Letters7
Frequency rank#7,230
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs15
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « relance »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).relancese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « recruter » (#7,229), « remarquables » (#7,231), « remède » (#7,232). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « relance » est au #7,230. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around relance (IPA \ʁə.lɑ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,230 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for relance, with forms such as "erlance", "realnce", and "relacne". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "relayé", "relaté", "relaxé", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is relance, spelled R-E-L-A-N-C-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action de relancer, de mettre un enjeu supérieur.
  2. 2
    Politique de dépense publique visant à augmenter l’activité économique dans un contexte de faible croissance ou de récession.
  3. 3
    Action de recontacter un client pour qu’il achète ou pour qu’il paie ses factures.
  4. 4
    Impulsion nouvelle donnée à une action diplomatique.
  5. 5
    Reprise de l’univers ou d’un personnage d’une saga cinématographique ou d’une série dans une nouvelle production ; par extension, cette production elle-même.
  6. 6
    Question ou commentaire prévus d'avance que l'animateur formule à l'intention d'un chroniqueur pour créer une dynamique de dialogue.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how relance appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Québec a plus d’argent que jamais sur la table pour des projets, mais ne doit pas passer à côté de cette opportunité, plaide Steeve Lavoie, grand patron de la Chambre de commerce et d’industrie de Québec, pour qui la relance passe par la collaboration.
  2. Il a marqué les esprits durant son deuxième passage au pouvoir, beaucoup plus long (2012-2020) avec sa politique économique audacieuse surnommée les « Abenomics », combinant des relances budgétaires massives avec une politique monétaire ultra-accommodante, une stratégie qui perdure encore au Japon, malgré des résultats inégaux faute de réformes structurel…

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • erlance
  • realnce
  • relacne
  • relancce
  • relanec
  • relannce
  • rellance
  • relnace
  • rleance
  • rrelance

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of relance - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

erlance2realnce2relacne2relancce1relanec2relannce1rellance1relnace2
Edit distance from "relance"

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "relance"?
"relance" is spelled R-E-L-A-N-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁə.lɑ̃s\.
What does "relance" mean?
As a noun, "relance" means: Action de relancer, de mettre un enjeu supérieur.
What words are commonly confused with "relance"?
"relance" is commonly confused with "relayé", "relaté", "relaxé". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "relance"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "relance" is \ʁə.lɑ̃s\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "relance" come from?
"relance" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "relance", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list