déduction

\de.dyk.sjɔ̃\

/\de.dyk.sjɔ̃\/ noun

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The verdict

“déduction” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,133. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#15,133
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords
14
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de soustraire une somme d'une autre.

Corpus desk

Index FR-deduction · déduction · French

déduction · rank #15,133 · 14 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #15,133
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 14 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH décrivant

Nearest frequency peer: décrivant (-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 « déduction »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « déduction » 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).

déduction vs détection
78% similar
déduction vs défection
78% similar
déduction vs déductions
90% similar

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

Key facts for déduction
PropertyValue
Headworddéduction
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\de.dyk.sjɔ̃\
Letters9
Frequency rank#15,133
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « déduction »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.déductionse place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « décrivant » (#15,132), « délicatesse » (#15,134), « déchéance » (#15,131). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « déduction » est au #15,133. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 14 spelling variants around déduction (IPA \de.dyk.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,133 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for déduction, with forms such as "ddéduction", "ddéuction", and "deduction". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "détection", "défection", "déductions", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is déduction, spelled D-É-D-U-C-T-I-O-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action de soustraire une somme d'une autre.
  2. 2
    Action de déduire, de tirer une conséquence, d'inférer une chose d'une autre.
  3. 3
    Procédé par lequel on va de la cause aux effets, du principe aux conséquences, du général au particulier.
  4. 4
    Déduction de colonie (deducere coloniam) : installation d'une colonie de citoyens romains sur des terres confisquées aux vaincus.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Il fait une déduction de la somme principal.
  2. La succession, déduction faite des dettes et legs, monte à cent mille francs.

Synonyms

soustraction

Antonyms

inductionabduction

This word in other languages

deduction(English)deducción(Español)Abzug(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ddéduction
  • ddéuction
  • deduction
  • dédcution
  • dédduction
  • déducction
  • déduciton
  • déductino
  • déductionn
  • déductoin
  • déducttion
  • dédutcion
  • déudction
  • édduction

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of déduction - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

ddéduction1ddéuction2deduction1dédcution2dédduction1déducction1déduciton2déductino2
Edit distance from "déduction"

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 "déduction"?
"déduction" is spelled D-É-D-U-C-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \de.dyk.sjɔ̃\.
What does "déduction" mean?
As a noun, "déduction" means: Action de soustraire une somme d'une autre.
What words are commonly confused with "déduction"?
"déduction" is commonly confused with "détection", "défection", "déductions". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "déduction"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "déduction" is \de.dyk.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "déduction" come from?
"déduction" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

décrivant#15,132déchéance#15,131donateurs#15,128dissoudre#15,126

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).

embouchure14 variantsfertilité14 variantscontextes14 variantscardiaques14 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list