connection
\kɔ.nɛ.ksjɔ̃\
The verdict
“connection” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,788. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,788
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante orthographique de connexion.
Corpus desk
Index FR-connection · connection · French
connection · rank #19,788 · 13 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,788
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH concerner
Nearest frequency peer: concerner (-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 « connection »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- compartimen…
compartiments
80,215 corpus weight
- concerner
concerner
80,214 corpus weight
- connection
connection
80,213 corpus weight
- considérez
considérez
80,212 corpus weight
- constructif
constructif
80,211 corpus weight
- contracter
contracter
80,210 corpus weight
What this shows « connection » 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 | connection |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.nɛ.ksjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #19,788 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « connection »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around connection (IPA \kɔ.nɛ.ksjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,788 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Variante orthographique de connexion.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for connection, with forms such as "cconnection", "cnonection", and "conection". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "connexion", "convention", "conviction", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is connection, spelled C-O-N-N-E-C-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Variante orthographique de connexion.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how connection appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle l’avait beaucoup frappé et il avait pensé deux ou trois fois à elle pendant la journée, pas nécessairement en connection avec l’homme coupé en morceaux, mais parce que ce n’était pas un personnage ordinaire
L’ampoule est alimentée par deux transformateurs de 100 KV en série. Le point de jonction A est à la terre (simple hypothèse). Alors le potentiel du point B variera entre + 100 KV et -- 100 KV. Celui-ci du point milieu M entre + 50 KV et - 50 Kv. Or de cepoint milieu part une connection MC, MB qui met à ce même potentiel et le noyau et le primaire du tran…
Antonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cconnection
- cnonection
- conection
- conenction
- conncetion
- connecction
- conneciton
- connectino
- connectionn
- connectoin
- connecttion
- connetcion
- ocnnection
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of connection - 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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).