dilution
\di.ly.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“dilution” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,279. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,279
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de diluer, d'étendre avec de l'eau ou un autre solvant ; résultat de cette action.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dilution · dilution · French
dilution · rank #25,279 · 11 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,279
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dillon
Nearest frequency peer: dillon (-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 « dilution »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Desmarais
Desmarais
74,725 corpus weight
- digues
digues
74,724 corpus weight
- dillon
dillon
74,723 corpus weight
- dilution
dilution
74,722 corpus weight
- diminuée
diminuée
74,721 corpus weight
- dirty
dirty
74,720 corpus weight
What this shows « dilution » 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 | dilution |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \di.ly.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #25,279 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dilution »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around dilution (IPA \di.ly.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #25,279 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for dilution, with forms such as "ddilution", "dillution", and "diltuion". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "diction", "délation", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is dilution, spelled D-I-L-U-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action de diluer, d'étendre avec de l'eau ou un autre solvant ; résultat de cette action.
- 2Action de diluer, de rendre moins clair, moins net, moins direct, de faire perdre de sa force ; résultat de cette action.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dilution appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous avons déjà vu que les procédés de détection des isotopes sont suffisamment sensibles pour permettre des dilutions très considérables de l'élément marqué.
D’autres agents capables de dégranuler les basophiles à des concentrations « classiques », s’avèrent eux aussi capables de faire dégranuler les basophiles à hautes dilutions.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddilution
- dillution
- diltuion
- diluiton
- dilutino
- dilutionn
- dilutoin
- diluttion
- diultion
- dliution
- idlution
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dilution - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
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