distinction
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,227
in French word usage
Misspellings
17
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
distinction is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de séparer nettement une chose d’une autre. Pronounced \dis.tɛ̃k.sjɔ̃\. It ranks #4,227 in French word frequency. Often confused with distraction and distinctive.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | distinction |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dis.tɛ̃k.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #4,227 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for distinction is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dis.tɛ̃k.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,227 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 17 documented wrong-spelling variants for distinction, with forms such as "ddistinction", "disitnction", and "disstinction". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "distraction", "distinctive", "distinctions", 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 distinction, spelled D-I-S-T-I-N-C-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 séparer nettement une chose d’une autre.
- 2Indication, séparation des divers sens qu’une proposition peut recevoir.
- 3Opération de l’esprit par laquelle on distingue une chose d'une autre.
- 4Action de mettre une différence entre des personnes ou des choses, ou d’avoir égard à la différence qui est entre elles.
- 5Ce qui établit ou indique une différence entre des personnes ou des choses.
- 6Prérogative, honneur ou marque de préférence, d’estime ou d’égard.
- 7Bon ton, élégance ou dignité des manières.
- 8Processus de différenciation sociale par lequel des pratiques, goûts ou styles de vie servent à marquer des positions sociales.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddistinction,disitnction,disstinction,disticntion,distincction,distinciton,distinctino,distinctionn,distinctoin,distincttion,distinnction,distintcion,distniction,disttinction,ditsinction,dsitinction,idstinction
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for distinction
Misspelling Variants of "distinction"
Frequency rank: #4,227 in French
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