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Variant or Variance

Last updated Apr 19, 2022 Edit Source

# Variant or Variance

2022-04-19

Tags: #English

They are pretty much the same.

Very strictly speaking, variation is change, and a variant is one of the forms resulting from the change.

The use of variation to mean variant is so common, though, that only a hardcore pedant would ever even recognize a difference in that context, much less say either one is incorrect.1


  1. word choice - What is the difference between a variant and a variation? - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange ↩︎