allusion
\a.ly.zjɔ̃\
The verdict
“allusion” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,401. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,401
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Figure de style qui permet d’éveiller l’idée d’une personne ou d’une chose sans en faire expressément mention.
Corpus desk
Index FR-allusion · allusion · French
allusion · rank #7,401 · 9 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,401
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Allah
Nearest frequency peer: Allah (-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 « allusion »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- aidez
aidez
92,603 corpus weight
- algériens
algériens
92,602 corpus weight
- Allah
Allah
92,601 corpus weight
- allusion
allusion
92,600 corpus weight
- blocage
blocage
92,599 corpus weight
- bracelet
bracelet
92,598 corpus weight
What this shows « allusion » 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 | allusion |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ly.zjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #7,401 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « allusion »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around allusion (IPA \a.ly.zjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,401 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Figure de style qui permet d’éveiller l’idée d’une personne ou d’une chose sans en faire expressément mention.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for allusion, with forms such as "allsuion", "alluison", and "allusino". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "allusions", "alluvions", "Allison", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is allusion, spelled A-L-L-U-S-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Figure de style qui permet d’éveiller l’idée d’une personne ou d’une chose sans en faire expressément mention.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how allusion appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces quatre sources sont nᵒ 1 le besoin ; nᵒ 2 le pléonasme ; nᵒ 3 la métathèse ; nᵒ 4 l’énallage. Parmi les figures de pensées, au nombre de dix-huit, il [Phœbammon] en distingue deux nées du besoin : l’aposiopèse et l’épitrochasmos ; six nées du pléonasme : la prodiorthose, l’épidiorthose, la procatalepse, la paralipse, la diotypose, l’épimone ; six nées…
Mais m’sieu le curé ne comprit pas sans doute le sens de cette insidieuse allusion […]
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- allsuion
- alluison
- allusino
- allusionn
- allusoin
- allussion
- alulsion
- alusion
- lalusion
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of allusion - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 misspelling depth
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