substance
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,706
in French word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
substance is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ce qui subsiste par soi-même, indépendamment de tout accident. Pronounced \syp.stɑ̃s\. It ranks #5,706 in French word frequency. Often confused with substances and subsistance.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | substance |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \syp.stɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #5,706 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for substance is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \syp.stɑ̃s\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,706 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for substance, with forms such as "sbustance", "ssubstance", and "subbstance". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "substances", "subsistance", 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 substance, spelled S-U-B-S-T-A-N-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ce qui subsiste par soi-même, indépendamment de tout accident.
- 2Toute sorte de matière.
- 3Ce qu’il y a de meilleur, de plus succulent, de plus nourrissant en quelque chose.
- 4Ce qu’il y a d’essentiel dans un discours, dans un écrit, dans une affaire, etc.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: sbustance,ssubstance,subbstance,subsatnce,subsstance,substacne,substancce,substanec,substannce,substnace,substtance,subtsance,susbtance,usbstance
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for substance
Misspelling Variants of "substance"
Frequency rank: #5,706 in French
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