conception
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,220
in French word usage
Misspellings
15
tracked variants
Confusables
8
similar word pairs
conception is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action par laquelle un enfant est conçu dans le sein de sa mère quand l’embryon se forme par la rencontre d’un ovule et d’un spermatozoïde. → voir fécondation Pronounced \kɔ̃.sɛp.sjɔ̃\. It ranks #2,220 in French word frequency. Often confused with convention and concession.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | conception |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.sɛp.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #2,220 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for conception is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃.sɛp.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,220 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 15 documented wrong-spelling variants for conception, with forms such as "cconception", "cnoception", and "cocneption". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "convention", "concession", "confection", and more, 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 conception, spelled C-O-N-C-E-P-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Action par laquelle un enfant est conçu dans le sein de sa mère quand l’embryon se forme par la rencontre d’un ovule et d’un spermatozoïde. → voir fécondation
- 2Faculté de comprendre et de concevoir les choses.
- 3Pensée résultant de cette faculté, idée, production de l’intelligence.
- 4Manière de voir les choses.
- 5Élaboration d’une idée ou d’un projet.
- 6Manière dont une chose est conçue.
- 7Ensemble des études préliminaires à la fabrication d’un produit.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cconception,cnoception,cocneption,concception,concepiton,concepption,conceptino,conceptionn,conceptoin,concepttion,concetpion,concpetion,conecption,connception,ocnception
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for conception
Misspelling Variants of "conception"
Frequency rank: #2,220 in French
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