dissection
\di.sɛk.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“dissection” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #35,900. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,900
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de disséquer ou état d’un corps disséqué.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dissection · dissection · French
dissection · rank #35,900 · 13 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #35,900
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Dionysos
Nearest frequency peer: Dionysos (-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 « dissection »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- diagnostiqu…
diagnostiquée
64,104 corpus weight
- Dinan
Dinan
64,103 corpus weight
- Dionysos
Dionysos
64,102 corpus weight
- dissection
dissection
64,101 corpus weight
- dissipe
dissipe
64,100 corpus weight
- DN
DN
64,099 corpus weight
What this shows « dissection » 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 | dissection |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \di.sɛk.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #35,900 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dissection »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around dissection (IPA \di.sɛk.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #35,900 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for dissection, with forms such as "ddissection", "disection", and "disesction". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "direction", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is dissection, spelled D-I-S-S-E-C-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action de disséquer ou état d’un corps disséqué.
- 2Épanchement de sang entre deux feuillets d’une artère.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dissection appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le Chirurgien de l’hospice était revêtu de son tablier de dissection. Un de ses aides avait défait sa trousse, et lui présentait un couteau à disséquer.
Et il y avait enfin, à l’hôpital de Plassans, une salle de dissection, qu’il était presque le seul à fréquenter, une grande salle claire et tranquille, dans laquelle, depuis plus de vingt ans, tous les corps non réclamés étaient passés sous son scalpel.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddissection
- disection
- disesction
- disscetion
- dissecction
- disseciton
- dissectino
- dissectionn
- dissectoin
- dissecttion
- dissetcion
- dsisection
- idssection
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dissection - 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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Same letter count
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Similar misspelling depth
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