cognition
\kɔ.ɲi.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“cognition” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,798. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,798
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Processus mental qui recouvre principalement l'acquisition du savoir et, en premier lieu, du langage, en passant par la mémorisation, le raisonnement, la prise de conscience des émotions, la percep...
Corpus desk
Index FR-cognition · cognition · French
cognition · rank #42,798 · 13 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,798
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH comparu
Nearest frequency peer: comparu (+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 « cognition »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- chichi
chichi
57,207 corpus weight
- chronos
chronos
57,206 corpus weight
- cognition
cognition
57,203 corpus weight
- comparu
comparu
57,202 corpus weight
- complaire
complaire
57,201 corpus weight
- confidente
confidente
57,200 corpus weight
What this shows « cognition » 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 | cognition |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.ɲi.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #42,798 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cognition »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around cognition (IPA \kɔ.ɲi.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #42,798 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Processus mental qui recouvre principalement l'acquisition du savoir et, en premier lieu, du langage, en passant par la mémorisation, le raisonnement, la prise de conscience des émotions, la percep...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for cognition, with forms such as "ccognition", "cgonition", and "coggnition". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "condition", "cognitive", "cognitif", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is cognition, spelled C-O-G-N-I-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Processus mental qui recouvre principalement l'acquisition du savoir et, en premier lieu, du langage, en passant par la mémorisation, le raisonnement, la prise de conscience des émotions, la perception de l'environnement, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cognition appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La définition exacte de ce qu'est la cognition et des processus qu'elle met en jeu est l'objet de nombreux débats dans les sciences contemporaines.
Les plantes n'ont pas de cerveau, mais cela ne veut pas dire qu'elles n'ont pas de cognition. Tout ce qui vit possède une cognition, et comme l'écrivait le psychologue américain William James : « Des créatures très basses dans l'échelle intellectuelle pourraient bien être capables de conception, il suffit pour cela qu'elles soient capables de reconnaître…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccognition
- cgonition
- coggnition
- cogintion
- cogniiton
- cognitino
- cognitionn
- cognitoin
- cognittion
- cognnition
- cogntiion
- congition
- ocgnition
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cognition - 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.
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
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).