voyance

/\vwa.jɑ̃s\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#24,813

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

7

similar word pairs

voyance is aFrenchnoun. It means: Capacité à obtenir une information par des méthodes qui s’affranchissent des lois de la nature habituellement reconnues, comme les limites de temps et d’espace. Pronounced \vwa.jɑ̃s\. Often confused with voyant and voyante.

Key facts for voyance
PropertyValue
Headwordvoyance
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\vwa.jɑ̃s\
Letters7
Frequency rank#24,813
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for voyance is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \vwa.jɑ̃s\. Corpus data places it at rank #24,813 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Capacité à obtenir une information par des méthodes qui s’affranchissent des lois de la nature habituellement reconnues, comme les limites de temps et d’espace.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for voyance, with forms such as "ovyance", "voaynce", and "voyacne". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "voyant", "voyante", "voyants", 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 voyance, spelled V-O-Y-A-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
    Capacité à obtenir une information par des méthodes qui s’affranchissent des lois de la nature habituellement reconnues, comme les limites de temps et d’espace.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ovyance,voaynce,voyacne,voyancce,voyanec,voyannce,voynace,voyyance,vvoyance,vyoance

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for voyance

Misspelling Variants of "voyance"

ovyance7voaynce7voyacne7voyancce8voyanec7voyannce8voynace7voyyance8
Misspelling Variants of "voyance"

Frequency rank: #24,813 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "voyance"?
"voyance" is spelled V-O-Y-A-N-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is \vwa.jɑ̃s\.
What does "voyance" mean?
As a noun, "voyance" means: Capacité à obtenir une information par des méthodes qui s’affranchissent des lois de la nature habituellement reconnues, comme les limites de temps et d’espace.
What words are commonly confused with "voyance"?
"voyance" is commonly confused with "voyant", "voyante", "voyants". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "voyance"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "voyance" is \vwa.jɑ̃s\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "voyance" come from?
"voyance" 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.