corruption

\kɔ.ʁyp.sjɔ̃\

/\kɔ.ʁyp.sjɔ̃\/ noun

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The verdict

“corruption” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,189. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#3,189
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de corrompre, de détériorer, de faire perdre l'essentiel, de détourner de sa fin première, de faire perdre ses qualités.

Corpus desk

Index FR-corruption · corruption · French

corruption · rank #3,189 · 13 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-COMMON #3,189
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH comédie

Nearest frequency peer: comédie (-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 « corruption »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « corruption » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

corruption vs correction
80% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

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)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « corruption »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).corruptionse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « comédie » (#3,188), « croient » (#3,190), « classiques » (#3,187). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « corruption » est au #3,189. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around corruption (IPA \kɔ.ʁyp.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,189 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for corruption, with forms such as "ccorruption", "corrpution", and "corrupiton". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "correction", 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, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is corruption, spelled C-O-R-R-U-P-T-I-O-N.

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.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how corruption appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. La pratique abusive de l’accusation publique volontaire (la sycophantie), inhérente à la démocratie grecque, a largement participé à la corruption du système. La délation met en évidence la corruption de l’idéal d’une société de confiance qui est celle de la cité d’Athènes, que l’on pourrait retrouver dans l’idéal de transparence qui caractérise les démoc…
  2. L'œuvre de corruption (du latin « rumpere », rompre) de la langue par l'idéologie me paraît opérer en deux temps.

This word in other languages

corruption(English)corrupción(Español)Korruption(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ccorruption
  • corrpution
  • corrupiton
  • corrupption
  • corruptino
  • corruptionn
  • corruptoin
  • corrupttion
  • corrutpion
  • coruption
  • corurption
  • croruption
  • ocrruption

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of corruption - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

ccorruption1corrpution2corrupiton2corrupption1corruptino2corruptionn1corruptoin2corrupttion1
Edit distance from "corruption"

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.

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?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "corruption", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

classiques#3,187spécifique#3,226industriel#3,141difficiles#3,133

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

extension13 variantsparticipe13 variantschronique13 variantsculturelle13 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list