détection
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,988
in French word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
détection is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de détecter un objet, un corps ou une substance à l’aide d’un appareil. Pronounced \de.tɛk.sjɔ̃\. It ranks #9,988 in French word frequency. Often confused with direction and détention.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | détection |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.tɛk.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #9,988 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for détection is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \de.tɛk.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #9,988 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 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for détection, with forms such as "ddétection", "detection", and "dtéection". 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, "direction", "détention", "détective", 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 détection, spelled D-É-T-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 détecter un objet, un corps ou une substance à l’aide d’un appareil.
- 2Action de détecter quelque chose d’anormal, de défectueux, d’illégal, de délictueux, à l’aide d’un appareil ou d’un dispositif.
- 3Action de détecter, chez quelqu’un, une aptitude ou une compétence hors du commun.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddétection,detection,dtéection,déetction,détcetion,détecction,déteciton,détectino,détectionn,détectoin,détecttion,détetcion,déttection,édtection
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for détection
Misspelling Variants of "détection"
Frequency rank: #9,988 in French
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Nearby French words
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