érection
\e.ʁɛk.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“érection” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,290. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,290
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’ériger un monument.
Corpus desk
Index FR-erection · érection · French
érection · rank #12,290 · 12 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,290
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH épique
Nearest frequency peer: épique (-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 « érection »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- zombie
zombie
87,715 corpus weight
- égyptiens
égyptiens
87,714 corpus weight
- énergétiques
énergétiques
87,713 corpus weight
- épique
épique
87,712 corpus weight
- érection
érection
87,711 corpus weight
- éternelleme…
éternellement
87,710 corpus weight
What this shows « érection » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | 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) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « érection »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around érection (IPA \e.ʁɛk.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,290 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for érection, with forms such as "erection", "réection", and "éerction". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "éruption", "éviction", "exécution", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is érection, spelled É-R-E-C-T-I-O-N.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how érection appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quelque temps après la création de l’église de Verrières, nous constatons l’érection d’une église à Saint-Loup-aux-Bois, aujourd’hui Saint-Loup-Terrier.
Ces manutentionnaires se plaignirent des ais et des pointes qu’on leur avait dérobés pour perpétrer cette érection.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erection
- réection
- éerction
- ércetion
- érecction
- éreciton
- érectino
- érectionn
- érectoin
- érecttion
- éretcion
- érrection
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of érection - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).