absorption
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#12,090
in French word usage
Misspellings
15
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
absorption is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action d’absorber. Pronounced \ap.sɔʁp.sjɔ̃\. Often confused with assomption and absolution.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | absorption |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ap.sɔʁp.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #12,090 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for absorption is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ap.sɔʁp.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #12,090 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 15 documented wrong-spelling variants for absorption, with forms such as "abbsorption", "abosrption", and "absoprtion". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "assomption", "absolution", 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 absorption, spelled A-B-S-O-R-P-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Action d’absorber.
- 2Fonction par laquelle les êtres organisés attirent à eux et pompent les fluides qui les environnent ou qui sont exhalés intérieurement.
- 3Repas offert chaque année aux anciens de l’École polytechnique par la promotion nouvelle. On y absorbe assez de choses pour justifier le nom de la solennité.
- 4Transformation d'énergie rayonnante en une autre forme d'énergie par interaction avec la matière. (Commission Internationale de l'Éclairage).
- 5Pénétration d’un agent toxique dans l’organisme par une voie d’exposition (cutanée, digestive, respiratoire, etc.), précédant sa distribution dans les tissus.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: abbsorption,abosrption,absoprtion,absorpiton,absorpption,absorptino,absorptionn,absorptoin,absorpttion,absorrption,absortpion,absroption,abssorption,asborption,basorption
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for absorption
Misspelling Variants of "absorption"
Frequency rank: #12,090 in French
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