corruption
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,189
in French word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
corruption is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de corrompre, de détériorer, de faire perdre l'essentiel, de détourner de sa fin première, de faire perdre ses qualités. Pronounced \kɔ.ʁyp.sjɔ̃\. It ranks #3,189 in French word frequency. Often confused with correction.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | corruption |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.ʁyp.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #3,189 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for corruption is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ.ʁyp.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,189 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 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 corruption, with forms such as "ccorruption", "corrpution", and "corrupiton". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "correction", 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 corruption, spelled C-O-R-R-U-P-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 corrompre, de détériorer, de faire perdre l'essentiel, de détourner de sa fin première, de faire perdre ses qualités.
- 2Action de détourner quelqu’un de son devoir, pour l’engager, contre l’honneur, à faire – ou ne pas faire – quelque chose moyennant quelque avantage, le plus souvent financier.
- 3Altération de la substance d’une chose et putréfaction qui en résulte.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccorruption,corrpution,corrupiton,corrupption,corruptino,corruptionn,corruptoin,corrupttion,corrutpion,coruption,corurption,croruption,ocrruption
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for corruption
Misspelling Variants of "corruption"
Frequency rank: #3,189 in French
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