diffusion

/\di.fy.zjɔ̃\/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#2,570

in French word usage

Misspellings

11

tracked variants

Confusables

1

similar word pairs

diffusion is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de répandre dans tous les sens. Pronounced \di.fy.zjɔ̃\. It ranks #2,570 in French word frequency. Often confused with diffusions.

Key facts for diffusion
PropertyValue
Headworddiffusion
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\di.fy.zjɔ̃\
Letters9
Frequency rank#2,570
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of diffusion in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for diffusion is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \di.fy.zjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,570 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for diffusion, with forms such as "ddiffusion", "dfifusion", and "diffsuion". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "diffusions", 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 diffusion, spelled D-I-F-F-U-S-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action de répandre dans tous les sens.
  2. 2
    Pénétration ou migration d'espèces chimiques dans un milieu liquide ou gazeux.
  3. 3
    Action de se répandre ou état de ce qui est répandu en parlant des gaz, de la chaleur, de la lumière, du son.
  4. 4
    Propagation des ondes (notamment de la lumière) lorsque celles-ci rencontrent un obstacle.
  5. 5
    Conduction thermique entre deux régions d’un même milieu ou entre deux milieux en contact sans déplacement appréciable de matière.
  6. 6
    Caractère d'un style qui manque de concision, où les idées sont diffuses.
  7. 7
    Processus dans lequel un changement de direction et d’énergie d’une particule incidente ou d’un rayonnement incident est provoqué par une collision avec une autre particule ou un système de particules.
  8. 8
    Distribution.
  9. 9
    Radiodiffusion d'une émission télévisuelle ou radiophonique, propagation.
  10. 10
    Opération qui consiste à doper un semiconducteur positivement ou négativement par exposition des tranches du semiconducteur à des gaz dopants à température élevée.
  11. 11
    Changement de répartition spatiale d'un rayonnement qui est dévié dans de multiples directions par une surface ou par un milieu.
  12. 12
    Le fait d’informer les détaillants — libraires, grandes surfaces — de l'existence d’un ouvrage, d’en assurer la promotion et de prendre les commandes.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ddiffusion,dfifusion,diffsuion,diffuison,diffusino,diffusionn,diffusoin,diffussion,difufsion,difusion,idffusion

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for diffusion

Misspelling Variants of "diffusion"

ddiffusion10dfifusion9diffsuion9diffuison9diffusino9diffusionn10diffusoin9diffussion10
Misspelling Variants of "diffusion"

Frequency rank: #2,570 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "diffusion"?
"diffusion" is spelled D-I-F-F-U-S-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \di.fy.zjɔ̃\.
What does "diffusion" mean?
As a noun, "diffusion" means: Action de répandre dans tous les sens.
What words are commonly confused with "diffusion"?
"diffusion" is commonly confused with "diffusions". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "diffusion"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "diffusion" is \di.fy.zjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "diffusion" come from?
"diffusion" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.