reliance
\ʁə.ljɑ̃s\
The verdict
“reliance” is uncommon French (frequency #81,495 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,495
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Acte de relier, de créer des liens entre des personnes ou des systèmes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-reliance · reliance · French
reliance · rank #81,495 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,495
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH render
Nearest frequency peer: render (+2 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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « reliance »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- regency
regency
18,511 corpus weight
- Reichenbach
Reichenbach
18,510 corpus weight
- reliance
reliance
18,506 corpus weight
- render
render
18,504 corpus weight
- renter
renter
18,503 corpus weight
- repassés
repassés
18,502 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « reliance » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | reliance |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁə.ljɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #81,495 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « reliance » en français
Rare enough to double-check
reliance is uncommon French at frequency #81,495 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁə.ljɑ̃s\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for reliance, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 reliance, spelled R-E-L-I-A-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Acte de relier, de créer des liens entre des personnes ou des systèmes.
- 2Relation interpersonnelle, état de ce qui est relié, connecté.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how reliance appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le concept a été proposé à l'origine par Roger Clausse (en 1963) pour indiquer un "besoin psychosocial (d'information) : de reliance par rapport à l'isolement". Il fut repris et réélaboré à la fin des années 1970 par Marcel Bolle de Bal, à partir d'une sociologie des médias. À la notion de connexions, la reliance va ajouter le sens, la finalité, l'inserti…
This word in other languages
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.
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