cohésion
\kɔ.e.zjɔ̃\
The verdict
“cohésion” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,290. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,290
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Force par laquelle les parties d’un corps adhèrent entre elles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cohesion · cohésion · French
cohésion · rank #9,290 · 12 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,290
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chères
Nearest frequency peer: chères (-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 « cohésion »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- chagrin
chagrin
90,715 corpus weight
- chaire
chaire
90,714 corpus weight
- chargement
chargement
90,713 corpus weight
- chères
chères
90,712 corpus weight
- cohésion
cohésion
90,711 corpus weight
- compatriotes
compatriotes
90,709 corpus weight
What this shows « cohésion » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cohésion |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.e.zjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #9,290 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cohésion »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around cohésion (IPA \kɔ.e.zjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,290 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for cohésion, with forms such as "ccohésion", "choésion", and "cohesion". 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. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 cohésion, spelled C-O-H-É-S-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Force par laquelle les parties d’un corps adhèrent entre elles.
- 2Fait de rester ensemble, unis.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cohésion appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La cohésion est plus forte dans les corps solides que dans les corps liquides.
Mais ce territoire d’un demi-million de kilomètres carrés de surface, dont la population est estimée à une dizaine de millions d’habitants, est loin d’avoir la cohésion d’un État européen, et l’autorité effective des sultans ne s’est jamais étendue qu’à un tiers, tout au plus, du Maroc.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccohésion
- choésion
- cohesion
- cohhésion
- cohséion
- cohéison
- cohésino
- cohésionn
- cohésoin
- cohéssion
- coéhsion
- ochésion
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cohésion - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cohésion", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).