confection
\kɔ̃.fɛk.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“confection” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,884. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,884
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action par laquelle on exécute un ouvrage jusqu’à complet achèvement. — Note d’usage : Il ne se dit plus que dans des cas spéciaux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-confection · confection · French
confection · rank #14,884 · 15 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,884
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH comprenais
Nearest frequency peer: comprenais (-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 « confection »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- claquer
claquer
85,120 corpus weight
- combiner
combiner
85,119 corpus weight
- comprenais
comprenais
85,118 corpus weight
- confection
confection
85,117 corpus weight
- confiture
confiture
85,116 corpus weight
- consortium
consortium
85,115 corpus weight
What this shows « confection » 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 | confection |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.fɛk.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #14,884 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « confection »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around confection (IPA \kɔ̃.fɛk.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,884 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for confection, with forms such as "cconfection", "cnofection", and "cofnection". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "convention", "conviction", "correction", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is confection, spelled C-O-N-F-E-C-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action par laquelle on exécute un ouvrage jusqu’à complet achèvement. — Note d’usage : Il ne se dit plus que dans des cas spéciaux.
- 2Les vêtements, la lingerie, les chaussures qui ne sont pas faits sur mesure.
- 3Le commerce et la vente de ces sortes d’objets.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how confection appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Assez loin d’elle, debout devant une table en véritable laque, une personne grassouillette surveillait le samovar de cuivre où chauffait l’eau qui allait servir à la confection du thé.
On groupe quelquefois sous ce nom quelques fibres qui sont employées dans la corderie, la brosserie, la fabrication des feutres, etc., et qui ne pourraient entrer que difficilement dans la confection d'une étoffe quelconque.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cconfection
- cnofection
- cofnection
- conefction
- confcetion
- confecction
- confeciton
- confectino
- confectionn
- confectoin
- confecttion
- confetcion
- conffection
- connfection
- ocnfection
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of confection - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
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Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).