confusion
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,927
in French word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
confusion is aFrenchnoun. It means: État de ce qui est confus, en parlant des choses physiques et des choses morales. Pronounced \kɔ̃.fy.zjɔ̃\. It ranks #4,927 in French word frequency. Often confused with contusion and confusions.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | confusion |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.fy.zjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #4,927 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for confusion is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃.fy.zjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,927 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 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for confusion, with forms such as "cconfusion", "cnofusion", and "cofnusion". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "contusion", "confusions", "contusions", 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 confusion, spelled C-O-N-F-U-S-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1État de ce qui est confus, en parlant des choses physiques et des choses morales.
- 2Désordre d’un état ; trouble politique.
- 3Défaut d’ordre, de méthode, de clarté dans les choses qui tiennent aux opérations de l’esprit.
- 4Action de confondre une chose avec une autre ; résultat de cette action.
- 5Réunion qui se fait en une même personne des droits actifs et passifs concernant un même objet.
- 6Trouble qui résulte de la honte, de l’humiliation, d’un excès de modestie.
- 7Effet produit par le non respect du seuil de séparation ou du seuil de différenciation entre des éléments graphiques voisins ou de valeurs voisines.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cconfusion,cnofusion,cofnusion,conffusion,confsuion,confuison,confusino,confusionn,confusoin,confussion,connfusion,conufsion,ocnfusion
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for confusion
Misspelling Variants of "confusion"
Frequency rank: #4,927 in French
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