audition

\o.di.sjɔ̃\

/\o.di.sjɔ̃\/ noun

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The verdict

“audition” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,528. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#7,528
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
7
confusable pairs

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

Corpus desk

Index FR-audition · audition · French

audition · rank #7,528 · 10 variants · 7 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #7,528
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH attraper

Nearest frequency peer: attraper (-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 « audition »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « audition » 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).

audition vs auditive
75% similar
audition vs auditions
89% similar
audition vs auditif
75% similar

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

Key facts for audition
PropertyValue
Headwordaudition
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\o.di.sjɔ̃\
Letters8
Frequency rank#7,528
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « audition »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.auditionse 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 « attraper » (#7,527), « BBC » (#7,529), « atteints » (#7,526). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « audition » est au #7,528. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around audition (IPA \o.di.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,528 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for audition, with forms such as "aduition", "auddition", and "audiiton". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "auditive", "auditions", "auditif", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is audition, spelled A-U-D-I-T-I-O-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action d’entendre.
  2. 2
    Action de recevoir un témoignage, d’examiner un compte.
  3. 3
    Mode de sélection des artistes susceptibles de tenir les rôles d'un film, d'une pièce de théâtre ou d'un programme.
  4. 4
    Concert de musique d'orgue.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. La portée de cet appareil est assez considérable; il permet de faire entendre les auditions des radioconcerts à un auditoire de plusieurs centaines de personnes dans une très grande salle.
  2. Ce dernier peut ainsi obtenir à volonté, suivant la nature du radio-concert ou de la reproduction phonographique, une audition de tonalité générale plus grave ou plus aiguë. Des systèmes réglables de variation de tonalité sont montés, comme on le sait, sur la plupart des radio-récepteurs actuels.

Synonyms

casting

This word in other languages

hearing(English)audición(Español)Anhörung(Deutsch)audição(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • aduition
  • auddition
  • audiiton
  • auditino
  • auditionn
  • auditoin
  • audittion
  • audtiion
  • auidtion
  • uadition

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

aduition2auddition1audiiton2auditino2auditionn1auditoin2audittion1audtiion2
Edit distance from "audition"

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 "audition"?
"audition" is spelled A-U-D-I-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \o.di.sjɔ̃\.
What does "audition" mean?
As a noun, "audition" means: Action d’entendre.
What words are commonly confused with "audition"?
"audition" is commonly confused with "auditive", "auditions", "auditif". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "audition"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "audition" is \o.di.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "audition" come from?
"audition" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

attraper#7,527atteints#7,526assurant#7,525aisément#7,516

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

devriez10 variantstantôt10 variantsestimer10 variantsRaphaël10 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list