érudition
\e.ʁy.di.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“érudition” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,204. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,204
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Savoir minutieux dans un domaine restreint d'histoire littéraire, de la philologie classique, en histoire événementielle, ou dans les sciences annexes de l’histoire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-erudition · érudition · French
érudition · rank #29,204 · 13 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,204
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH équipiers
Nearest frequency peer: équipiers (-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 « érudition »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- élégants
élégants
70,800 corpus weight
- éplucher
éplucher
70,799 corpus weight
- équipiers
équipiers
70,798 corpus weight
- érudition
érudition
70,797 corpus weight
- étranglement
étranglement
70,796 corpus weight
- évolutif
évolutif
70,794 corpus weight
What this shows « érudition » 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 | érudition |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.ʁy.di.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #29,204 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « érudition »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around érudition (IPA \e.ʁy.di.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,204 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for érudition, with forms such as "erudition", "réudition", and "érduition". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "éruption", "édition", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is érudition, spelled É-R-U-D-I-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Savoir minutieux dans un domaine restreint d'histoire littéraire, de la philologie classique, en histoire événementielle, ou dans les sciences annexes de l’histoire.
- 2L’ensemble des érudits (en un domaine donné).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how érudition appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vaste, solide érudition. Érudition mal digérée, sans critique, dénuée de critique. Une érudition poussiéreuse, mal contrôlée et gonflante. Ouvrages d’érudition. Travaux d’érudition. Recherches d’érudition.
L'érudition ne remplace pas le génie. (Schopenhauer)
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erudition
- réudition
- érduition
- érrudition
- éruddition
- érudiiton
- éruditino
- éruditionn
- éruditoin
- érudittion
- érudtiion
- éruidtion
- éurdition
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of érudition - 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.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "érudition", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).