allusions
\a.ly.zjɔ̃\
The verdict
“allusions” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,765. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,765
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel d’allusion.
Corpus desk
Index FR-allusions · allusions · French
allusions · rank #22,765 · 11 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,765
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH allumettes
Nearest frequency peer: allumettes (-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 « allusions »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- alibi
alibi
77,238 corpus weight
- allumettes
allumettes
77,237 corpus weight
- allusions
allusions
77,236 corpus weight
- amor
amor
77,235 corpus weight
- apaise
apaise
77,234 corpus weight
- apprêtait
apprêtait
77,233 corpus weight
What this shows « allusions » 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 | allusions |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ly.zjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #22,765 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « allusions »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around allusions (IPA \a.ly.zjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #22,765 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel d’allusion.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for allusions, with forms such as "allsuions", "alluisons", and "allusinos". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "alluvions", "allions", "allusion", and more, 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, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is allusions, spelled A-L-L-U-S-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel d’allusion.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how allusions appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Plus encore, l'édition de 1528 « désarthurianise » Perceforest : le prologue multiplie les références antiques ou contemporaines et n’évoque jamais Arthur ou la Table Ronde, les titres de chapitres, comparés aux rubriques des divers témoins manuscrits, gomment les allusions arthuriennes (mises à part celles à Morgane, qui, nous l’avons vu, n’est plus véri…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- allsuions
- alluisons
- allusinos
- allusionns
- allusionss
- allusiosn
- allusoins
- allussions
- alulsions
- alusions
- lalusions
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of allusions - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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