diction
\dik.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“diction” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #31,920. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,920
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Manière de dire, de prononcer un discours, des vers, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-diction · diction · French
diction · rank #31,920 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,920
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH diabétiques
Nearest frequency peer: diabétiques (-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 « diction »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- derrières
derrières
68,084 corpus weight
- diabétiques
diabétiques
68,082 corpus weight
- diction
diction
68,081 corpus weight
- dispendieux
dispendieux
68,080 corpus weight
- dispersée
dispersée
68,079 corpus weight
- dispos
dispos
68,078 corpus weight
What this shows « diction » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | diction |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dik.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #31,920 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « diction »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around diction (IPA \dik.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #31,920 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Manière de dire, de prononcer un discours, des vers, etc.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for diction, with forms such as "dcition", "ddiction", and "dicction". 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, "dicton", "dilution", "direction", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 diction, spelled D-I-C-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Manière de dire, de prononcer un discours, des vers, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how diction appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ainsi, sans sa vanité, sans sa prétention, peut-être n’eût-il pas été doué de cette diction sonore, instrument nécessaire à la vie politique actuelle.
On aurait pu se croire dans un fumoir anglais Nous sirotions à deux un breuvage irlandais Qui donnait à chacun une diction pâteuse Une douce apathie, une indolence heureuse.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- dcition
- ddiction
- dicction
- diciton
- dictino
- dictionn
- dictoin
- dicttion
- ditcion
- idction
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of diction - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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.
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
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