dition
\di.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“dition” is uncommon French (frequency #79,224 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,224
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Empire, autorité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dition · dition · French
dition · rank #79,224 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,224
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH disruptive
Nearest frequency peer: disruptive (-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 « dition »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- diffusaient
diffusaient
20,780 corpus weight
- disruptive
disruptive
20,778 corpus weight
- dition
dition
20,777 corpus weight
- divans
divans
20,776 corpus weight
- documentali…
documentalistes
20,775 corpus weight
- dolbeau
dolbeau
20,774 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dition » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dition |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \di.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #79,224 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dition » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dition is uncommon French at frequency #79,224 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \di.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
dition doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is dition, spelled D-I-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Empire, autorité.
- 2Domaine couvert par une étude naturaliste.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dition appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
De voir cette femme [Mme du Maine], qui avait tant osé assurer qu'elle renverserait l'État, de la voir rager entre quatre murailles de la dition de M. le duc.
Cardot, botaniste infatigable, doublé d’un géologue averti, parcourut les Vosges saônoises dans la partie qui correspond aux cantons de Mélisey et de Faucogney s’étendant tous deux sur notre dition.
This word in other languages
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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