fission
\fi.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“fission” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #31,031. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,031
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Division cellulaire ; scissiparité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fission · fission · French
fission · rank #31,031 · 8 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,031
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH filent
Nearest frequency peer: filent (-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 « fission »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- fiancés
fiancés
68,973 corpus weight
- fighter
fighter
68,972 corpus weight
- filent
filent
68,971 corpus weight
- fission
fission
68,970 corpus weight
- flex
flex
68,969 corpus weight
- formels
formels
68,968 corpus weight
What this shows « fission » 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 | fission |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fi.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #31,031 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fission »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around fission (IPA \fi.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #31,031 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for fission, with forms such as "ffission", "fision", and "fisison". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "fusion", "fiston", "frisson", and more, 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 read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is fission, spelled F-I-S-S-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Division cellulaire ; scissiparité.
- 2Division d’un noyau atomique lourd en deux fragments dont les masses sont du même ordre de grandeur, qui s’accompagne de l’émission de neutrons, de rayons gamma et d’une quantité d’énergie élevée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fission appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quant à la réduplication du centrosome, nous ignorons entièrement si elle est due à une croissance, suivie d'une fission binaire, ou si elle se produit selon un mécanisme de modèle (template) ; […].
Juste avant l’individualisation de la vésicule, il se forme le pore de fission qui apparaît sous la forme d’un raccordement aqueux entre la lumière de la vésicule et le milieu extracellulaire […]
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffission
- fision
- fisison
- fissino
- fissionn
- fissoin
- fsision
- ifssion
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fission - 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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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 (8 here; floor ≥5).