addition
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,776
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
11
similar word pairs
addition is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action d’ajouter. Pronounced \a.di.sjɔ̃\. It ranks #9,776 in French word frequency. Often confused with adoption and ambition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | addition |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.di.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #9,776 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for addition is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.di.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #9,776 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for addition, with forms such as "addiiton", "additino", and "additionn". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "adoption", "ambition", "audition", 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 addition, spelled A-D-D-I-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’ajouter.
- 2Relation faisant correspondre à deux objets mathématiques (en arithmétique deux nombres) un troisième appelé somme (dans le cas des nombres mesurant des quantités, on parle aussi de total).
- 3Ce qu’on ajoute à quelque chose ; ajout.
- 4Ajout de dates, citations, petites notes, etc., en marge d’un texte.
- 5Note de la dépense qu’on a faite dans un restaurant.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: addiiton,additino,additionn,additoin,addittion,addtiion,adidtion,adition,dadition
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for addition
Misspelling Variants of "addition"
Frequency rank: #9,776 in French
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