induction
\ɛ̃.dyk.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“induction” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,563. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,563
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Raisonnement qui consiste à rassembler une série d’observations spécifiques pour arriver à formuler une conclusion générale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-induction · induction · French
induction · rank #19,563 · 13 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,563
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH import
Nearest frequency peer: import (-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 « induction »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- identitaires
identitaires
80,441 corpus weight
- immédiats
immédiats
80,440 corpus weight
- import
import
80,439 corpus weight
- induction
induction
80,438 corpus weight
- infrarouge
infrarouge
80,437 corpus weight
- innovant
innovant
80,436 corpus weight
What this shows « induction » 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 | 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) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « induction »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around induction (IPA \ɛ̃.dyk.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,563 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for induction, with forms such as "idnuction", "indcution", and "indduction". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "infection", "injection", "intuition", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is induction, spelled I-N-D-U-C-T-I-O-N.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how induction appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Voilà comme il répond toujours ! dit le curé, qui, au fond, doué d’une extrême bienveillance, et n’étant pas fâché de voir souvent un homme instruit pour lui faire part de ses inductions scientifiques, aimait Léon Marsillat sans l’estimer beaucoup.
Il est inutile de rapporter les suppositions bizarres qui se firent. Chacun construisait laborieusement la sienne, s’étayant des inductions les plus frivoles et les plus ridicules, mais personne n’eut l’idée incongrue que le véritable triomphateur fût le capitaine Fracasse, dont on avait tant ri la veille.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- idnuction
- indcution
- indduction
- inducction
- induciton
- inductino
- inductionn
- inductoin
- inducttion
- indutcion
- innduction
- inudction
- niduction
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of induction - 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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