concession
\kɔ̃.sɛ.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“concession” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,039. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,039
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de concéder quelque jouissance, quelque droit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-concession · concession · French
concession · rank #7,039 · 13 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,039
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH compagne
Nearest frequency peer: compagne (-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 « concession »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- carnet
carnet
92,965 corpus weight
- climatiques
climatiques
92,964 corpus weight
- compagne
compagne
92,963 corpus weight
- concession
concession
92,962 corpus weight
- consulté
consulté
92,961 corpus weight
- copies
copies
92,960 corpus weight
What this shows « concession » 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 | concession |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.sɛ.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #7,039 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « concession »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around concession (IPA \kɔ̃.sɛ.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,039 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 8 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for concession, with forms such as "cconcession", "cnocession", and "cocnession". 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, "conclusion", "conversion", "confession", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is concession, spelled C-O-N-C-E-S-S-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action de concéder quelque jouissance, quelque droit.
- 2Ce qui est concédé, terre que l’État donne aux particuliers dans une nouvelle colonie, à condition de les mettre en valeur.
- 3Droit d’exploiter un bien public sur une durée de temps.
- 4Ensemble familial d’habitations, comprenant un terrain.
- 5Place dans un cimetière.
- 6Ce que l’on concède à quelqu’un dans une contestation, dans un débat.
- 7Figure de rhétorique par laquelle on accorde à son adversaire ce qu’on pourrait lui disputer.
- 8Reconnaissance, acceptation d’un fait qui devrait empêcher la réalisation d’un autre fait, mais qui cependant ne l’empêche pas.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how concession appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Faut-il rappeler, au surplus, que l’avant-dernier Pape, Pie IX, l’a caractérisée expressément comme un don gracieux de la puissance pontificale, comme une simple concession motivée par la dureté des temps ?
Il est remarquable que le feudiste Andrea d'Isernia ait tenu à bien préciser qu’une concession féodale par le roi n’implique pas de concession juridictionnelle, […], alors que les concessions de titres ducaux, comtaux ou marquisaux sont des prérogatives juridictionnelles que le roi pouvait ajouter aux concessions de bénéfices.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cconcession
- cnocession
- cocnession
- conccession
- concesion
- concesison
- concessino
- concessionn
- concessoin
- concsesion
- conecssion
- conncession
- ocncession
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of concession - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).