élocution
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#38,615
in French word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
élocution is aFrenchnoun. It means: Manière dont les sons sont exprimés. Pronounced \e.lɔ.ky.sjɔ̃\. Often confused with évolution and exécution.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | élocution |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.lɔ.ky.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #38,615 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for élocution is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.lɔ.ky.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #38,615 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for élocution, with forms such as "elocution", "léocution", and "élcoution". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "évolution", "exécution", "évocation", 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 élocution, spelled É-L-O-C-U-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Manière dont les sons sont exprimés.
- 2Manière de choisir et d'arranger les mots.
- 3Celle des trois parties de la rhétorique qui a pour objet le choix et l’arrangement des mots.
- 4certaines figures, dites microstructurales : répétition, paronomase.
- 5Présentation orale sans interaction avec le public, dans un contexte scolaire.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: elocution,léocution,élcoution,éllocution,éloccution,éloctuion,élocuiton,élocutino,élocutionn,élocutoin,élocuttion,élouction,éolcution
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for élocution
Misspelling Variants of "élocution"
Frequency rank: #38,615 in French
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