stances
\stɑ̃s\
The verdict
“stances” is uncommon French (frequency #74,402 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,402
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de stance.
Corpus desk
Index FR-stances · stances · French
stances · rank #74,402 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,402
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH stabilisant
Nearest frequency peer: stabilisant (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « stances »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- soûlé
soûlé
25,603 corpus weight
- spongieux
spongieux
25,601 corpus weight
- stabilisant
stabilisant
25,600 corpus weight
- stances
stances
25,599 corpus weight
- Sten
Sten
25,598 corpus weight
- stooges
stooges
25,596 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « stances » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stances |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \stɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #74,402 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « stances » en français
Rare enough to double-check
stances is uncommon French at frequency #74,402 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \stɑ̃s\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de stance.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for stances, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is stances, spelled S-T-A-N-C-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de stance.
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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