confections
\kɔ̃.fɛk.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“confections” is uncommon French (frequency #95,731 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,731
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de confection.
Corpus desk
Index FR-confections · confections · French
confections · rank #95,731 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,731
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH confiances
Nearest frequency peer: confiances (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « confections »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- comtesses
comtesses
4,273 corpus weight
- concoure
concoure
4,272 corpus weight
- confections
confections
4,270 corpus weight
- confiances
confiances
4,269 corpus weight
- confiscatoi…
confiscatoire
4,268 corpus weight
- conformités
conformités
4,267 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « confections » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | confections |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.fɛk.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #95,731 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « confections » en français
Rare enough to double-check
confections is uncommon French at frequency #95,731 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ̃.fɛk.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de confection.".
No misspelling variants are generated for confections in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is confections, spelled C-O-N-F-E-C-T-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de confection.
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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