implosion
\ɛ̃.plo.zjɔ̃\
The verdict
“implosion” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #35,090. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,090
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Écrasement d'un corps creux dont les parois s'écrasent par l'effet d'une pression extérieure plus forte que la pression intérieure.
Corpus desk
Index FR-implosion · implosion · French
implosion · rank #35,090 · 13 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #35,090
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH imposants
Nearest frequency peer: imposants (+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 « implosion »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- hécatombe
hécatombe
64,915 corpus weight
- hématome
hématome
64,914 corpus weight
- implosion
implosion
64,911 corpus weight
- imposants
imposants
64,910 corpus weight
- imprègne
imprègne
64,909 corpus weight
- inadapté
inadapté
64,908 corpus weight
What this shows « implosion » 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 | implosion |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.plo.zjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #35,090 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « implosion »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around implosion (IPA \ɛ̃.plo.zjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #35,090 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Écrasement d'un corps creux dont les parois s'écrasent par l'effet d'une pression extérieure plus forte que la pression intérieure.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for implosion, with forms such as "imlposion", "immplosion", and "impllosion". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "impulsion", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 implosion, spelled I-M-P-L-O-S-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Écrasement d'un corps creux dont les parois s'écrasent par l'effet d'une pression extérieure plus forte que la pression intérieure.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how implosion appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’explosion des couches externes d’une supernova massive accompagne l’implosion du cœur de fer de l’ancienne étoile.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imlposion
- immplosion
- impllosion
- imploison
- implosino
- implosionn
- implosoin
- implossion
- implsoion
- impolsion
- impplosion
- ipmlosion
- miplosion
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of implosion - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).