ascension
\a.sɑ̃.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“ascension” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,277. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,277
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de monter, de s’élever.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ascension · ascension · French
ascension · rank #7,277 · 13 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,277
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH artificielle
Nearest frequency peer: artificielle (-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 « ascension »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- arrange
arrange
92,727 corpus weight
- arrêtent
arrêtent
92,726 corpus weight
- artificielle
artificielle
92,725 corpus weight
- ascension
ascension
92,724 corpus weight
- aériennes
aériennes
92,723 corpus weight
- baseball
baseball
92,722 corpus weight
What this shows « ascension » 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 | ascension |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.sɑ̃.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #7,277 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ascension »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around ascension (IPA \a.sɑ̃.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,277 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for ascension, with forms such as "acsension", "asccension", and "ascenison". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "ascensions", "accession", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is ascension, spelled A-S-C-E-N-S-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action de monter, de s’élever.
- 2Action de gravir une montagne.
- 3Point de l’équateur qui se lève en même temps qu’un astre dans la sphère droite ou dans la sphère oblique.
- 4Élévation d’une personne vers le ciel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ascension appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y a tantôt soixante-sept ans que les ballons sillonnent l'espace, et cependant, à chaque ascension, une sorte de curiosité inquiète rassemble autour de l'aérostat une foule aussi nombreuse que si c'était la première fois que ce spectacle fût donné aux hommes.
Outre l’ascension du peintre refoulé devenu soldat fanatique puis sauveur vénéré d’une Allemagne en perdition, le musée abordait l’Holocauste et ses millions de victimes, photographies sans concession à l’appui, montrant comment la folie d’une poignée d’individus ultradéterminés avait mené le pays dans l’horreur.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acsension
- asccension
- ascenison
- ascennsion
- ascensino
- ascensionn
- ascensoin
- ascenssion
- ascesnion
- ascnesion
- asecnsion
- asscension
- sacension
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ascension - 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 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
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