corruption

/\kɔ.ʁyp.sjɔ̃\/ noun

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.

Key facts for corruption
PropertyValue
Headwordcorruption
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kɔ.ʁyp.sjɔ̃\
Letters10
Frequency rank#3,189
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Action de corrompre, de détériorer, de faire perdre l'essentiel, de détourner de sa fin première, de faire perdre ses qualités.
  2. 2
    Action 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.
  3. 3
    Altération de la substance d’une chose et putréfaction qui en résulte.

This word in other languages

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"

ccorruption11corrpution10corrupiton10corrupption11corruptino10corruptionn11corruptoin10corrupttion11
Misspelling Variants of "corruption"

Frequency rank: #3,189 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "corruption"?
"corruption" is spelled C-O-R-R-U-P-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ.ʁyp.sjɔ̃\.
What does "corruption" mean?
As a noun, "corruption" means: Action de corrompre, de détériorer, de faire perdre l'essentiel, de détourner de sa fin première, de faire perdre ses qualités.
What words are commonly confused with "corruption"?
"corruption" is commonly confused with "correction". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "corruption"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "corruption" is \kɔ.ʁyp.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "corruption" come from?
"corruption" 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.