fashion

\fa.ʃœn\

/\fa.ʃœn\/ noun

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

corpus weight

What this shows « fashion » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

fashion vs fusion
71% similar
fashion vs fission
71% similar
fashion vs fassions
75% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for fashion
PropertyValue
Headwordfashion
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\fa.ʃœn\
Letters7
Frequency rank#11,582
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fashion »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.fashionse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « fantasmes » (#11,581), « fiabilité » (#11,583), « escale » (#11,580). Parmi 3,276 lemmes en « F », « fashion » est au #11,582. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    La société élégante, le beau monde.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how fashion appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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…
  2. 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.

afshion2fahsion2fashhion1fashino2fashionn1fashoin2fasihon2fasshion1
Edit distance from "fashion"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "fashion"?
"fashion" is spelled F-A-S-H-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \fa.ʃœn\.
What does "fashion" mean?
As a noun, "fashion" means: La société élégante, le beau monde.
What words are commonly confused with "fashion"?
"fashion" is commonly confused with "fusion", "fission", "fassions". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "fashion"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "fashion" is \fa.ʃœn\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "fashion" come from?
"fashion" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "fashion", not the corpus desk frequency band.

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).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list