inflexion
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#35,551
in French word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
inflexion is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de fléchir, de plier, de courber. Pronounced \ɛ̃.flɛk.sjɔ̃\. Often confused with Inflation.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | inflexion |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.flɛk.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #35,551 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for inflexion is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ̃.flɛk.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #35,551 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 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 inflexion, with forms such as "ifnlexion", "infelxion", and "infflexion". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Inflation", 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 inflexion, spelled I-N-F-L-E-X-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Action de fléchir, de plier, de courber.
- 2Changement léger de direction. Infléchir une orientation définie, c'est modifier sa tendance.
- 3un point d’inflexion est un changement de la concavité sur la courbe d'une fonction continue.
- 4Il se dit, en termes d’optique, de l’espèce particulière de déviation que les rayons lumineux subissent lorsqu’ils passent dans les confins de deux milieux dont le pouvoir réfringent est différent.
- 5Il se dit aussi des changements de ton, d’accent dans la voix, soit en chantant, soit en parlant.
- 6Flexion.
- 7Mutation vocalique, comme dans die Häuser contre das Haus en allemand.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ifnlexion,infelxion,infflexion,infleixon,inflexino,inflexionn,inflexoin,inflexxion,infllexion,inflxeion,inlfexion,innflexion,niflexion
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for inflexion
Misspelling Variants of "inflexion"
Frequency rank: #35,551 in French
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