infection
\ɛ̃.fɛk.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“infection” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,204. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,204
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Décomposition organique produite par des germes infectieux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-infection · infection · French
infection · rank #6,204 · 13 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,204
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH index
Nearest frequency peer: index (-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 « infection »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ignorance
ignorance
93,800 corpus weight
- Illusion
Illusion
93,799 corpus weight
- index
index
93,798 corpus weight
- infection
infection
93,797 corpus weight
- initiatives
initiatives
93,796 corpus weight
- inspection
inspection
93,795 corpus weight
What this shows « infection » 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 | infection |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.fɛk.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #6,204 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « infection »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around infection (IPA \ɛ̃.fɛk.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,204 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for infection, with forms such as "ifnection", "inefction", and "infcetion". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "Intention", "invention", "Inflation", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is infection, spelled I-N-F-E-C-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Décomposition organique produite par des germes infectieux.
- 2Grande puanteur.
- 3Contamination par un agent pathogène.
- 4Contamination par un logiciel indésirable ou nuisible.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how infection appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’infection d’une plaie.
Et, derrière les balances, dans sa boîte mince, un géromé anisé répandait une infection telle que des mouches étaient tombées autour de la boîte, sur le marbre rouge veiné de gris.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ifnection
- inefction
- infcetion
- infecction
- infeciton
- infectino
- infectionn
- infectoin
- infecttion
- infetcion
- inffection
- innfection
- nifection
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of infection - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "infection", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).