adduction

\a.dyk.sjɔ̃\

/\a.dyk.sjɔ̃\/ noun

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The verdict

“adduction” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,843. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#44,843
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’amener.

Corpus desk

Index FR-adduction · adduction · French

adduction · rank #44,843 · 11 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #44,843
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH activity

Nearest frequency peer: activity (-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 « adduction »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « adduction » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

adduction vs addition
78% similar
adduction vs addiction
89% similar
adduction vs addictions
80% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for adduction
PropertyValue
Headwordadduction
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.dyk.sjɔ̃\
Letters9
Frequency rank#44,843
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « adduction »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.adductionse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « activity » (#44,842), « adjacents » (#44,844), « actionne » (#44,841). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « adduction » est au #44,843. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around adduction (IPA \a.dyk.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #44,843 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for adduction, with forms such as "addcution", "adducction", and "adduciton". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "addition", "addiction", "addictions", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is adduction, spelled A-D-D-U-C-T-I-O-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action d’amener.
  2. 2
    Action des muscles adducteurs.
  3. 3
    Action des muscles adducteurs.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how adduction appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. L’adduction des eaux d’une source.
  2. La privatisation de la gestion des réseaux d’adduction d’eau est l’une des solutions pour relancer ce secteur.

This word in other languages

adduction(English)aducción(Español)Adduktion(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • addcution
  • adducction
  • adduciton
  • adductino
  • adductionn
  • adductoin
  • adducttion
  • addutcion
  • aduction
  • adudction
  • daduction

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of adduction - 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.

addcution2adducction1adduciton2adductino2adductionn1adductoin2adducttion1addutcion2
Edit distance from "adduction"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "adduction"?
"adduction" is spelled A-D-D-U-C-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \a.dyk.sjɔ̃\.
What does "adduction" mean?
As a noun, "adduction" means: Action d’amener.
What words are commonly confused with "adduction"?
"adduction" is commonly confused with "addition", "addiction", "addictions". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "adduction"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "adduction" is \a.dyk.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "adduction" come from?
"adduction" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "adduction", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

adjacents#44,844étouffent#44,831éterniser#44,828appétence#44,863

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

abreuver11 variantsécoutées11 variantsaqueducs11 variantsyoutuber11 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list