correction
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | correction |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.ʁɛk.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #6,072 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Action de corriger, d’ôter les défauts de quelque chose ou résultat de cette action.
- 2Changements qu’on fait dans les ouvrages de l’esprit pour les améliorer.
- 3Action de corriger les travaux des élèves et étudiants et d'en noter la valeur.
- 4Action de corriger les épreuves, d’indiquer les fautes de composition, afin que l’ouvrier les fasse disparaître.
- 5Action du compositeur qui exécute les changements indiqués sur l’épreuve par le correcteur ou par l’auteur.
- 6Opération où l’on fait usage d’un correctif pour tempérer la force de certaines substances.
- 7Qualité de ce qui est correct.
- 8Exactitude dans la représentation des contours et des détails anatomiques de la figure, d’après un modèle bien conformé, abstraction faite du coloris.
- 9Châtiment, peine.
- 10Opération 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).
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccorrection,corection,corerction,corrcetion,correcction,correciton,correctino,correctionn,correctoin,correcttion,corretcion,crorection,ocrrection
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "correction"
Frequency rank: #6,072 in French
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