détention
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,552
in French word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
détention is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de détenir une chose sans en être ni s’en prétendre le possesseur. Pronounced \de.tɑ̃.sjɔ̃\. It ranks #5,552 in French word frequency. Often confused with détonation and déception.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | détention |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.tɑ̃.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #5,552 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for détention is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \de.tɑ̃.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,552 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 détention, with forms such as "ddétention", "detention", and "dtéention". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "détonation", "déception", "détection", 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 détention, spelled D-É-T-E-N-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 détenir une chose sans en être ni s’en prétendre le possesseur.
- 2État d’une personne détenue, emprisonnée.
- 3Peine afflictive et infamante, consistant dans un emprisonnement dans une enceinte fortifiée, sur le territoire de la France, pendant un laps de temps qui peut varier de cinq à la perpétuité.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddétention,detention,dtéention,déetntion,déteniton,détenntion,détentino,détentionn,détentoin,détenttion,détetnion,détnetion,déttention,édtention
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for détention
Misspelling Variants of "détention"
Frequency rank: #5,552 in French
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Nearby French words
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