word endings "nce" "nse" and "ns"

[Tom Zurinskas]

Endings "nce" "nse" and "ns"   Tom Zurinskas 4-24-10

This analyzes words ending in "nce" "nse" "ns" using
the top 5k words of English in print (with repeated instances).
Total instances is 15.4 million (e.g., the top word "the" has 1M instances)
Thefreedictionary gives (ns) as the  pronunciation for "nce" "nse" endings
Truespel gives ~nts as the pronunciation for "nce" and "nse" endings

Results of listening to the spoken words at thefreedictionary.com
There were 53 words ending in "nce" and 8 ending in "nse."
The overwhelming predominant  pronunciation was ~nts

In the truespel dictionary, all words ending in "ns" are ~nz not ~ns.
There are no words pronunciations ending in ~ns

 tradspel freq  truespel freedic USA UK
1 once   10,136   ~nts    (ns)  ~nts ~nts
2 since   8,806   ~nts    (ns)  ~nts ~nts
3 experience 3,518 ~nts (ns) ~nts ~nts
4 evidence 2,606 ~nts (ns) ~nts ~nts
5 chance 2,567 ~nts (ns) ~nts ~nts
6 instance 1,909 ~nts (ns) ~nts ~nts
7 difference 1,777 ~nts (ns) ~nts ~nts
8 France 1,702 ~nts (ns) ~nts ~nts
9 silence 1,693 ~nts (ns) ~nts ~nts
10 science 1,645 ~nts (ns) ~nts ~nts
11 distance 1,572 ~nts (ns) ~nts ~nts
12 influence 1,486 ~nts (ns) ~nts ~nts
13 presence 1,432 ~nts (ns) ~nts ~nts
14 balance 1,358 ~nts (ns) ~nts ~nts
15 importance 1,344 ~nts (ns) ~nts ~nts
16 conference 1,195 ~nts (ns) ~nts ?
17 existence 1,189 ~nts (ns) ~nts ~nts
18 violence 1,139 ~nts (ns) ~nts ~nts
19 audience 1,135 ~nts (ns) none ~nts
20 performance 1,108 ~nts (ns) ~ns ~nts
21 confidence 1,079 ~nts (ns) ~nts ~ns
22 intelligence 991 ~nts (ns) ~nts ~nts
23 appearance 976 ~nts (ns) ~nts ~nts
24 insurance 968 ~nts (ns) ~nts ~nts
25 advance 850 ~nts (ns) ~nts ~nts
26 entrance 834 ~nts (ns) ~nts ~nts
27 dance 817 ~nts (ns) ~nts ~nts
28 absence 715 ~nts (ns) ~nts ~nts
29 independence 680 ~nts (ns) ~nts ~nts
30 reference 665 ~nts (ns) ~nts ~nts
31 sentence 603 ~nts (ns) ~nts ~nts
32 resistance 573 ~nts (ns) ~nts ~nts
33 significance 566 ~nts (ns) ~ns ~nts
34 hence 557 ~nts (ns) ~nts ~nts
35 prince 550 ~nts (ns) ~nts ~nts
36 glance 546 ~nts (ns) ~nts ~nts
37 finance 518 ~nts (ns) ~nts ~nts
38 consequence 446 ~nts (ns) ~nts ~nts
39 sequence 431 ~nts (ns) ~ns ~nts
40 alliance 427 ~nts (ns) ~nts ~nts
41 maintenance 418 ~nts (ns) ~nts ~nts
42 conscience 417 ~nts (ns) ~nts ~nts
43 fence 407 ~nts (ns) ~nts ~nts
44 acceptance 393 ~nts (ns) ~nts ~nts
45 assistance 387 ~nts (ns) ~nts ~nts
46 substance 377 ~nts (ns) ~nts ~nts
47 ignorance 330 ~nts (ns) ~nts ?
48 patience 326 ~nts (ns) ~nts ~ns
49 essence 323 ~nts (ns) ~nts ~nts
50 innocence 312 ~nts (ns) ~ns ~nts
51 offence 310 ~nts (ns) ~nts ~nts
52 allowance 304 ~nts (ns) ~nts ~nts
53 convince 283 ~nts (ns) ~nts ~nts

54 sense 5,141 ~nts (ns) ~nts ~nts
55 defense 1,341 ~nts (ns) ~nts ~nts
56 response 1,209 ~nts (ns) ~nts ~nts
57 intense 634 ~nts (ns) ~nts ~nts
58 immense 480 ~nts (ns) ~ns ~nts
59 nonsense 461 ~nts (ns) ~nts ~ns
60 expense 447 ~nts (ns) ~nts ~nts
61 tense 323 ~nts (ns) ~nts ~nts


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