édition
\e.di.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“édition” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #1,015 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #1,015
- frequency rank, French
- 7
- letters
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Impression, publication et diffusion d’une œuvre artistique (livre, musique, objet d’art, etc). soit qu’elle paraisse pour la première fois, soit qu’elle ait déjà été imprimée ; ou les séries succe...
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 | édition |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.di.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,015 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “édition” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for édition is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.di.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,015 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for édition, with forms such as "déition", "edition", and "éddition". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "edito", "editor", "emotion", and more, 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is édition, spelled É-D-I-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Impression, publication et diffusion d’une œuvre artistique (livre, musique, objet d’art, etc). soit qu’elle paraisse pour la première fois, soit qu’elle ait déjà été imprimée ; ou les séries successives des exemplaires qu’on imprime pour cette publication.
- 2Totalité des exemplaires de tel ou tel ouvrage publié et mis en vente.
- 3Par extension, l’industrie qui a pour objet la publication d’ouvrage.
- 4Tirage spécifique de la même édition d’un ouvrage.
- 5Exemplaire faisant partie d’un tirage dans une édition.
- 6Tirage strictement identique de l’édition du jour d’un quotidien.
- 7Les différents canaux de diffusion.
- 8Par extension, émission de télévision donnant les actualités.
- 9(Suivi d’une année) S’utilise pour préciser l’année en parlant d’une manifestation ayant lieu régulièrement, par exemple tous les ans ou tous les deux ans.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: déition,edition,éddition,édiiton,éditino,éditionn,éditoin,édittion,édtiion,éidtion
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of édition - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Using “édition”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is É-D-I-T-I-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \e.di.sjɔ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “edito” - see the side-by-side comparison. édition vs edito
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.