érection
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#12,290
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
8
similar word pairs
érection is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action d’ériger un monument. Pronounced \e.ʁɛk.sjɔ̃\. Often confused with éruption and éviction.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | érection |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.ʁɛk.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #12,290 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for érection is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.ʁɛk.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #12,290 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for érection, with forms such as "erection", "réection", and "éerction". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "éruption", "éviction", "exécution", 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 érection, spelled É-R-E-C-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Action d’ériger un monument.
- 2Action d’ériger une institution ou un établissement.
- 3Action par laquelle certaines parties molles du corps se gonflent, se durcissent et se redressent, en particulier le pénis.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: erection,réection,éerction,ércetion,érecction,éreciton,érectino,érectionn,érectoin,érecttion,éretcion,érrection
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for érection
Misspelling Variants of "érection"
Frequency rank: #12,290 in French
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