conviction
\kɔ̃.vik.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“conviction” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,071. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,071
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Effet qu’une preuve évidente produit dans l’esprit, certitude que l’on a de la vérité d’un fait, d’un principe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-conviction · conviction · French
conviction · rank #6,071 · 15 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,071
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH contenir
Nearest frequency peer: contenir (-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 « conviction »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- constant
constant
93,933 corpus weight
- constructio…
constructions
93,932 corpus weight
- contenir
contenir
93,931 corpus weight
- conviction
conviction
93,930 corpus weight
- correction
correction
93,929 corpus weight
- cotisations
cotisations
93,928 corpus weight
What this shows « conviction » 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 | conviction |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.vik.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #6,071 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « conviction »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around conviction (IPA \kɔ̃.vik.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,071 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for conviction, with forms such as "cconviction", "cnoviction", and "conivction". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "convictions", "convocation", "condition", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is conviction, spelled C-O-N-V-I-C-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Effet qu’une preuve évidente produit dans l’esprit, certitude que l’on a de la vérité d’un fait, d’un principe.
- 2Preuve évidente d’un fait dont quelqu’un est accusé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how conviction appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quelles que soient la bonne foi et la conviction de ceux qui proclament le danger de cet article, et qui veulent le faire rejeter, j'atteste qu'avec la même bonne foi je suis intimement convaincu de ses salutaires effets.
Il est certaines situations dont bénéficient seuls les gens tarés. Ils fondent leur fortune là où des hommes mieux posés et plus influents n’auraient point osé risquer la leur. Certes, Roudier, Granoux et les autres, par leur position d’hommes riches et respectés, semblaient devoir être mille fois préférés à Pierre comme chefs actifs du parti conservateur…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cconviction
- cnoviction
- conivction
- connviction
- convcition
- convicction
- conviciton
- convictino
- convictionn
- convictoin
- convicttion
- convitcion
- convviction
- covniction
- ocnviction
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of conviction - 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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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 (15 here; floor ≥5).