action
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#549
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
action is aFrenchnoun. It means: Opération par laquelle se produit un effet ; influence de l’être qui agit. Pronounced \ak.sjɔ̃\. It ranks #549 in French word frequency. Often confused with avion and Anton.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | action |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ak.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #549 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for action is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ak.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #549 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 14 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for action, with forms such as "acction", "aciton", and "actino". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "avion", "Anton", "Aston", 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 action, spelled A-C-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Opération par laquelle se produit un effet ; influence de l’être qui agit.
- 2Occupation plus ou moins active ; exercice de la faculté d’agir.
- 3Tout ce qu’on fait.
- 4Combat ou engagement entre des troupes.
- 5Véhémence à dire ou à faire quelque chose.
- 6Tout ce qui regarde la contenance, le mouvement du corps, les gestes de l’orateur, de l’acteur.
- 7Discours public, tel qu’un sermon, une harangue, un plaidoyer.
- 8Demande, poursuite en justice.
- 9Droit qu’on a de former une demande en justice.
- 10Évènement ou série d'événements qui est le sujet d’une œuvre de fiction : roman, film, pièce de théâtre, poème épique…
- 11Titre représentant une participation dans le capital d’une société.
- 12Grandeur dont la considération simplifie parfois l’étude mathématique d’un problème de mécanique.
- 13Percée rapide dans la défense adverse avec le ballon, menée individuellement ou collectivement, qui amène une situation dangereuse devant les buts.
- 14Promotion sur un produit ou un service dans un commerce de détail en Romandie, dérivé de l'allemand Aktion.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acction,aciton,actino,actionn,actoin,acttion,atcion,cation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for action
Misspelling Variants of "action"
Frequency rank: #549 in French
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