érosion
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#12,506
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
érosion is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ensemble des phénomènes mécaniques et chimiques de désagrégation des roches et des sols par les agents atmosphériques et par l’eau. Pronounced \e.ʁo.zjɔ̃\. Often confused with évasion and emotion.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | érosion |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.ʁo.zjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #12,506 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for érosion is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.ʁo.zjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #12,506 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for érosion, with forms such as "erosion", "réosion", and "éorsion". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "évasion", "emotion", "éclosion", 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 érosion, spelled É-R-O-S-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ensemble des phénomènes mécaniques et chimiques de désagrégation des roches et des sols par les agents atmosphériques et par l’eau.
- 2Dégradation progressive.
- 3Perte de la surface originelle de la pierre, entraînant des contours émoussés.
- 4Action d’une substance qui en attaque une autre, qui la ronge superficiellement.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: erosion,réosion,éorsion,éroison,érosino,érosionn,érosoin,érossion,érrosion,érsoion
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for érosion
Misspelling Variants of "érosion"
Frequency rank: #12,506 in French
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