association

\a.sɔ.sja.sjɔ̃\

/\a.sɔ.sja.sjɔ̃\/ noun

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The verdict

“association” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #715. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#715
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
4
confusable pairs

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

Corpus desk

Index FR-association · association · French

association · rank #715 · 13 variants · 4 confusables

  • FREQ-CORE #715
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH américain

Nearest frequency peer: américain (-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 « association »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « association » 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).

association vs associative
82% similar
association vs associations
92% similar
association vs associatif
82% similar

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

Key facts for association
PropertyValue
Headwordassociation
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.sɔ.sja.sjɔ̃\
Letters11
Frequency rank#715
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « association »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).associationse place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « américain » (#714), « carte » (#716), « activité » (#713). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « association » est au #715. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around association (IPA \a.sɔ.sja.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #715 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 7 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for association, with forms such as "asociation", "asosciation", and "asscoiation". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "associative", "associations", "associatif", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is association, spelled A-S-S-O-C-I-A-T-I-O-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action d’associer.
  2. 2
    Action d’être associé.
  3. 3
    Réunion de plusieurs personnes physiques ou de personnes morales dans un but, dans un intérêt commun.
  4. 4
    Groupement végétal le plus détaillé de la classification zuricho-montpelliéraine.
  5. 5
    Plantation ou semis des plantes différentes sur une même parcelle.
  6. 6
    Action d'associer à Dieu ; voir associateur.
  7. 7
    Relation entre deux classes qui fait que l'instance de l’une possède l’autre.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. L'œuvre de l’Industriel français qui pousse à l’association des petits contre l’implacable et mortelle concurrence des monopoleurs n'en est pas moins fort encourageable.
  2. Des associations d’idées s’étaient, là-dessus, faites en lui naturellement, et bien malin eût été celui qui l’aurait pu convaincre que l’église est le vestibule d’un lieu de délices appelé « Paradis ».

Synonyms

amicaleréunion

Antonyms

désassociation

This word in other languages

association(English)asociación(Español)Assoziation(Deutsch)associação(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • asociation
  • asosciation
  • asscoiation
  • assocaition
  • assocciation
  • associaiton
  • associatino
  • associationn
  • associatoin
  • associattion
  • associtaion
  • assoication
  • sasociation

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

asociation1asosciation2asscoiation2assocaition2assocciation1associaiton2associatino2associationn1
Edit distance from "association"

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 "association"?
"association" is spelled A-S-S-O-C-I-A-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \a.sɔ.sja.sjɔ̃\.
What does "association" mean?
As a noun, "association" means: Action d’associer.
What words are commonly confused with "association"?
"association" is commonly confused with "associative", "associations", "associatif". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "association"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "association" is \a.sɔ.sja.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "association" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

particulier#693différentes#767entreprises#646Information#845

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

américain13 variantschercher13 variantsimpression13 variantsdirecteur13 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list