valence
\va.lɑ̃s\
The verdict
“valence” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,635. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,635
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nombre maximum de liaisons chimiques qu’un atome peut former avec un autre atome donné.
Corpus desk
Index FR-valence · valence · French
valence · rank #7,635 · 10 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,635
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vaccin
Nearest frequency peer: vaccin (-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 « valence »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- techniqueme…
techniquement
92,369 corpus weight
- touchent
touchent
92,368 corpus weight
- vaccin
vaccin
92,367 corpus weight
- valence
valence
92,366 corpus weight
- vendue
vendue
92,365 corpus weight
- vives
vives
92,364 corpus weight
What this shows « valence » 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 | valence |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \va.lɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #7,635 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « valence »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around valence (IPA \va.lɑ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,635 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for valence, with forms such as "avlence", "vaelnce", and "valecne". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "Vance", "Vence", "valent", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is valence, spelled V-A-L-E-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Nombre maximum de liaisons chimiques qu’un atome peut former avec un autre atome donné.
- 2Nombre d’actants qu’un terme (le plus souvent un verbe) peut recevoir ou doit recevoir avant d'être saturé, c’est-à-dire fournir un syntagme grammaticalement correct.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how valence appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Edward Frankland (1825-1899) se demandait : Au lieu de parler de radicaux, de types, de capacités de saturation, ne peut-on tout résumer et tout simplifier en faisant de l’atomicité (ou valence) une propriété des atomes eux-mêmes ?
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- avlence
- vaelnce
- valecne
- valencce
- valenec
- valennce
- vallence
- valnece
- vlaence
- vvalence
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of valence - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).