émission

\e.mi.sjɔ̃\

/\e.mi.sjɔ̃\/ noun

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The verdict

“émission” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,245. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#1,245
frequency rank, French
1,805
“É” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’émettre ou résultat de cette action.

Corpus desk

Index FR-emission · émission · French

émission · rank #1,245 · 10 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #1,245
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,805
  • PHOTO-FINISH week

Nearest frequency peer: week (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « émission »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « émission » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

émission vs émulsion
75% similar
émission vs émissions
89% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for émission
PropertyValue
Headwordémission
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\e.mi.sjɔ̃\
Letters8
Frequency rank#1,245
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « émission »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).émissionse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « week » (#1,244), « auraient » (#1,246), « usage » (#1,243). Parmi 1,805 lemmes en « É », « émission » est au #1,245. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around émission (IPA \e.mi.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,245 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for émission, with forms such as "emission", "méission", and "éimssion". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "émulsion", "émissions", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is émission, spelled É-M-I-S-S-I-O-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action d’émettre ou résultat de cette action.
  2. 2
    Présentation d'informations, de documentaires, de jeux, par la radio ou par la télévision.
  3. 3
    Écoulement sous pression d'un liquide à l'extérieur du corps.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how émission appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. A mesure qu’augmentait les émissions de papier-monnaie, s’accentuait la dépréciation du mark, et de plus en plus les particuliers s’efforçaient, quand ils recevaient de billets, de les échanger aussitôt contre des marchandises.
  2. Du point de vue émission de COV, une heure de fonctionnement de tondeuse à gazon, de tronçonneuse ou de moteur hors-bord équivaut respectivement à un parcours de 80, 320 ou 1300 km en voiture dépolluée; […].

This word in other languages

emission(English)emisión(Español)Emission(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • emission
  • méission
  • éimssion
  • émision
  • émisison
  • émissino
  • émissionn
  • émissoin
  • émmission
  • émsision

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of émission - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

emission1méission2éimssion2émision1émisison2émissino2émissionn1émissoin2
Edit distance from "émission"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "émission"?
"émission" is spelled É-M-I-S-S-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \e.mi.sjɔ̃\.
What does "émission" mean?
As a noun, "émission" means: Action d’émettre ou résultat de cette action.
What words are commonly confused with "émission"?
"émission" is commonly confused with "émulsion", "émissions". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "émission"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "émission" is \e.mi.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "émission" come from?
"émission" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "émission", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

auraient#1,246concerne#1,252sciences#1,238habitude#1,230

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

chinois10 variantsjacques10 variantsfrères10 variantscapable10 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list