variance
\va.ʁjɑ̃s\
The verdict
“variance” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,640. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,640
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mesure de la dispersion des échantillons autour de la moyenne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-variance · variance · French
variance · rank #36,640 · 11 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,640
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vaginal
Nearest frequency peer: vaginal (-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 « variance »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ultrasons
ultrasons
63,365 corpus weight
- ursulines
ursulines
63,364 corpus weight
- vaginal
vaginal
63,362 corpus weight
- variance
variance
63,361 corpus weight
- verdâtre
verdâtre
63,360 corpus weight
- Verseau
Verseau
63,358 corpus weight
What this shows « variance » 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 | variance |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \va.ʁjɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #36,640 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « variance »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around variance (IPA \va.ʁjɑ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #36,640 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for variance, with forms such as "avriance", "vairance", and "varaince". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "variant", "variante", "variantes", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 variance, spelled V-A-R-I-A-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Mesure de la dispersion des échantillons autour de la moyenne.
- 2Nombre maximum de paramètres que peut fixer librement l’expérimentateur sans rompre l’équilibre.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- avriance
- vairance
- varaince
- variacne
- variancce
- varianec
- variannce
- varinace
- varriance
- vraiance
- vvariance
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of variance - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).