violence

/\vjɔ.lɑ̃s\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,463

in French word usage

Misspellings

11

tracked variants

Confusables

8

similar word pairs

violence is aFrenchnoun. It means: Impétuosité ; force non contenue. Pronounced \vjɔ.lɑ̃s\. It ranks #1,463 in French word frequency. Often confused with violent and violents.

Key facts for violence
PropertyValue
Headwordviolence
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\vjɔ.lɑ̃s\
Letters8
Frequency rank#1,463
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs8
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of violence in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for violence is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \vjɔ.lɑ̃s\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,463 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 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for violence, with forms such as "ivolence", "viloence", and "vioelnce". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "violent", "violents", "violette", and more, 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 violence, spelled V-I-O-L-E-N-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Impétuosité ; force non contenue.
  2. 2
    Force dont on use contre le droit commun, contre les lois, contre la liberté publique.
  3. 3
    Force que l’on use dans la contestation sociale ou dans la répression des conflits sociaux.
  4. 4
    Action physique ou psychologique accomplie pour obliger autrui à faire ou ne pas faire quelque chose, pour exprimer sa colère ou son désaccord, ou uniquement pour faire du mal.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ivolence,viloence,vioelnce,violecne,violencce,violenec,violennce,viollence,violnece,voilence,vviolence

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for violence

Misspelling Variants of "violence"

ivolence8viloence8vioelnce8violecne8violencce9violenec8violennce9viollence9
Misspelling Variants of "violence"

Frequency rank: #1,463 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "violence"?
"violence" is spelled V-I-O-L-E-N-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is \vjɔ.lɑ̃s\.
What does "violence" mean?
As a noun, "violence" means: Impétuosité ; force non contenue.
What words are commonly confused with "violence"?
"violence" is commonly confused with "violent", "violents", "violette". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "violence"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "violence" is \vjɔ.lɑ̃s\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "violence" come from?
"violence" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.