trance
\tʁɑ̃s\
The verdict
“trance” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #47,655. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,655
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 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 pl...
Corpus desk
Index FR-trance · trance · French
trance · rank #47,655 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,655
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH traduirait
Nearest frequency peer: traduirait (-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 « trance »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- toe
toe
52,349 corpus weight
- tournerait
tournerait
52,348 corpus weight
- traduirait
traduirait
52,347 corpus weight
- trance
trance
52,346 corpus weight
- transfronta…
transfrontalier
52,345 corpus weight
- transhumance
transhumance
52,344 corpus weight
What this shows « trance » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | trance |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #47,655 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « trance »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around trance (IPA \tʁɑ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #47,655 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "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 pl...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for trance, with forms such as "rtance", "tarnce", and "tracne". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "trône", "trans", "tronc", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 trance, spelled T-R-A-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Musique 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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how trance appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vers 1990, à Goa, en Inde, un mouvement underground se développe pour donner naissance à ce que l’on appellera la trance psychédélique.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- rtance
- tarnce
- tracne
- trancce
- tranec
- trannce
- trnace
- trrance
- ttrance
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of trance - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).