correction

/\kɔ.ʁɛk.sjɔ̃\/ noun

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#6,072

in French word usage

Misspellings

13

tracked variants

Confusables

9

similar word pairs

correction is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de corriger, d’ôter les défauts de quelque chose ou résultat de cette action. Pronounced \kɔ.ʁɛk.sjɔ̃\. It ranks #6,072 in French word frequency. Often confused with corruption and corrélation.

Key facts for correction
PropertyValue
Headwordcorrection
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kɔ.ʁɛk.sjɔ̃\
Letters10
Frequency rank#6,072
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs9
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of correction in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for correction is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ.ʁɛk.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,072 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 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 correction, with forms such as "ccorrection", "corection", and "corerction". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "corruption", "corrélation", "corrections", 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 correction, spelled C-O-R-R-E-C-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action de corriger, d’ôter les défauts de quelque chose ou résultat de cette action.
  2. 2
    Changements qu’on fait dans les ouvrages de l’esprit pour les améliorer.
  3. 3
    Action de corriger les travaux des élèves et étudiants et d'en noter la valeur.
  4. 4
    Action de corriger les épreuves, d’indiquer les fautes de composition, afin que l’ouvrier les fasse disparaître.
  5. 5
    Action du compositeur qui exécute les changements indiqués sur l’épreuve par le correcteur ou par l’auteur.
  6. 6
    Opération où l’on fait usage d’un correctif pour tempérer la force de certaines substances.
  7. 7
    Qualité de ce qui est correct.
  8. 8
    Exactitude dans la représentation des contours et des détails anatomiques de la figure, d’après un modèle bien conformé, abstraction faite du coloris.
  9. 9
    Châtiment, peine.
  10. 10
    Opération qui modifie une information portée sur un document cartographique pour l'actualiser en fonction de nouvelles données. Nota : ne pas confondre avec correction (de rédaction).

Antonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ccorrection,corection,corerction,corrcetion,correcction,correciton,correctino,correctionn,correctoin,correcttion,corretcion,crorection,ocrrection

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for correction

Misspelling Variants of "correction"

ccorrection11corection9corerction10corrcetion10correcction11correciton10correctino10correctionn11
Misspelling Variants of "correction"

Frequency rank: #6,072 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "correction"?
"correction" is spelled C-O-R-R-E-C-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ.ʁɛk.sjɔ̃\.
What does "correction" mean?
As a noun, "correction" means: Action de corriger, d’ôter les défauts de quelque chose ou résultat de cette action.
What words are commonly confused with "correction"?
"correction" is commonly confused with "corruption", "corrélation", "corrections". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "correction"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "correction" is \kɔ.ʁɛk.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "correction" come from?
"correction" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.