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trance

French, noun/tʁɑ̃s/

trance is spelled T-R-A-N-C-E (6 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 47,227th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Trance is a French feminine noun meaning “trance (music genre)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Musique électronique ayant émergé en Allemagne dans les années 1990 qui permet d’atteindre un état de transe…”.

What does trance mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    femininetrance (music genre)

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Musique électronique ayant émergé en Allemagne dans les années 1990 qui permet d’atteindre un état de transe qui se caractérise par une recherche systématique de lignes mélodiques répétitives et planantes obtenues harmoniquement et par l’utilisation de filtres dont les fréquences de coupure varient dans le temps.

noun: 1. Un des noms vernaculaires du trèfle.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of trance

  • trances plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce trance?

  • /tʁɑ̃s/
  • \tʁɑ̃s\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to trance

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is trance in French?

trance appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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