communion
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#11,543
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
communion is aFrenchnoun. It means: Intérêts en commun. Pronounced \kɔ.my.njɔ̃\. Often confused with community and commotion.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | communion |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.my.njɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #11,543 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for communion is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ.my.njɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #11,543 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for communion, with forms such as "ccommunion", "cmomunion", and "commnuion". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "community", "commotion", "communier", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is communion, spelled C-O-M-M-U-N-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Intérêts en commun.
- 2Accord profond, sympathie entre des personnes.
- 3Partage d'idées ou de sentiments.
- 4Sentiment de vécu partagé de quelque chose, ou de participation à quelque chose.
- 5Union de plusieurs personnes dans une même foi.
- 6Rite de réception du corps et du sang de Jésus-Christ, sous la forme de pain et de vin, dans le christianisme catholique romain.
- 7Partie de la messe où le prêtre accomplit ce rite.
- 8Première communion ou communion solennelle.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccommunion,cmomunion,commnuion,commuinon,communino,communionn,communnion,communoin,comumnion,comunion,ocmmunion
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for communion
Misspelling Variants of "communion"
Frequency rank: #11,543 in French
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