induction
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#19,563
in French word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
induction is aFrenchnoun. It means: Raisonnement qui consiste à rassembler une série d’observations spécifiques pour arriver à formuler une conclusion générale. Pronounced \ɛ̃.dyk.sjɔ̃\. Often confused with infection and injection.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | induction |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.dyk.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #19,563 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for induction is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ̃.dyk.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #19,563 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for induction, with forms such as "idnuction", "indcution", and "indduction". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "infection", "injection", "intuition", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is induction, spelled I-N-D-U-C-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Raisonnement qui consiste à rassembler une série d’observations spécifiques pour arriver à formuler une conclusion générale.
- 2Conséquence que l’on tire par induction.
- 3Conjecture plausible mais incertaine où la sagacité a plus de part que la raison et où l’on a plutôt égard à la vraisemblance qu’aux données certaines de l’expérience.
- 4Phénomène électrique correspondant à une force électromotrice générée dans un circuit électrique par une variation de flux magnétique.
- 5Ensemble des mécanismes cellulaires et moléculaires, conduisant au déclenchement de l’expression d’un gène spécifique.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: idnuction,indcution,indduction,inducction,induciton,inductino,inductionn,inductoin,inducttion,indutcion,innduction,inudction,niduction
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for induction
Misspelling Variants of "induction"
Frequency rank: #19,563 in French
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