distortion
\dɪ.ˈstɔɹ.ʃən\
The verdict
“distortion” is uncommon French (frequency #86,620 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,620
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Distorsion.
Corpus desk
Index FR-distortion · distortion · French
distortion · rank #86,620 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,620
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH distension
Nearest frequency peer: distension (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « distortion »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- disputez
disputez
13,384 corpus weight
- dissent
dissent
13,383 corpus weight
- distension
distension
13,382 corpus weight
- distortion
distortion
13,381 corpus weight
- dolor
dolor
13,379 corpus weight
- doni
doni
13,378 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « distortion » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | distortion |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɪ.ˈstɔɹ.ʃən\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #86,620 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « distortion » en français
Rare enough to double-check
distortion is uncommon French at frequency #86,620 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dɪ.ˈstɔɹ.ʃən\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Distorsion.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for distortion, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is distortion, spelled D-I-S-T-O-R-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Distorsion.
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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