fashion
\fa.ʃœn\
The verdict
“fashion” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,582. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,582
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - La société élégante, le beau monde.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fashion · fashion · French
fashion · rank #11,582 · 10 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,582
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fantasmes
Nearest frequency peer: fantasmes (-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 « fashion »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- environneme…
environnementales
88,422 corpus weight
- escale
escale
88,421 corpus weight
- fantasmes
fantasmes
88,420 corpus weight
- fashion
fashion
88,419 corpus weight
- fiabilité
fiabilité
88,418 corpus weight
- fictif
fictif
88,417 corpus weight
What this shows « fashion » 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 | fashion |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fa.ʃœn\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #11,582 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fashion »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around fashion (IPA \fa.ʃœn\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,582 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "La société élégante, le beau monde.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for fashion, with forms such as "afshion", "fahsion", and "fashhion". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "fusion", "fission", "fassions", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is fashion, spelled F-A-S-H-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1La société élégante, le beau monde.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fashion appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est là que se trouve un grand espace appelé salon, tout bordé de chaises, comme la grande allée des Tuileries ; du côté du salon, il y a une contre-allée qui porte le nom de Paris ; c’est le boulevard de Gand du lieu, le rendez-vous de la fashion de Madrid ; et, comme l’imagination des fashionables ne brille pas précisément par le pittoresque, ils ont c…
Un garçon, doué de quinze à vingt mille francs de rente, demeure dans un joli entresol, le monde ne lui demande aucun tapage, il peut n’avoir qu’un seul domestique, il applique tous ses revenus à ses plaisirs, il n’a d’autre décorum à garder que celui dont se charge son tailleur. Caressé par toutes les mères prévoyantes, il est un des rois de la fashion p…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- afshion
- fahsion
- fashhion
- fashino
- fashionn
- fashoin
- fasihon
- fasshion
- ffashion
- fsahion
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fashion - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).