addiction
\a.dik.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“addiction” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,840. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,840
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dépendance physique à une drogue, entraînant une perte de liberté d'action.
Corpus desk
Index FR-addiction · addiction · French
addiction · rank #14,840 · 11 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,840
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH achèvement
Nearest frequency peer: achèvement (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « addiction »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- 2nd
2nd
85,164 corpus weight
- 9e
9e
85,163 corpus weight
- achèvement
achèvement
85,162 corpus weight
- addiction
addiction
85,161 corpus weight
- agissements
agissements
85,160 corpus weight
- agro
agro
85,159 corpus weight
What this shows « addiction » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | addiction |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.dik.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #14,840 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « addiction »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around addiction (IPA \a.dik.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,840 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for addiction, with forms such as "addcition", "addicction", and "addiciton". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "audition", "addition", "additions", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is addiction, spelled A-D-D-I-C-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Dépendance physique à une drogue, entraînant une perte de liberté d'action.
- 2Dépendance psychique à une substance, une activité ou une structure sociale, menant à une consommation ou une répétition compulsives.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how addiction appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Et pourquoi ne dirait-on pas « addiction » en français ? l’interrogea Banon. — Parce que, cher Monsieur, cela risque inutilement de n’être pas compris. — Mais « addiction » est déjà dans Shakespeare ! — Je préfère « dépendance » : c’est déjà dans Racine.
Ferenczi considérait déjà en 1932 l’origine traumatique des addictions et plus particulièrement leur rôle anesthésiant et protecteur vis-à-vis de l’autre.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- addcition
- addicction
- addiciton
- addictino
- addictionn
- addictoin
- addicttion
- additcion
- adiction
- adidction
- dadiction
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of addiction - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).