injection

/\ɛ̃.ʒɛk.sjɔ̃\/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#7,451

in French word usage

Misspellings

13

tracked variants

Confusables

12

similar word pairs

injection is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action par laquelle on injecte un liquide dans le corps ou dans une plaie. Pronounced \ɛ̃.ʒɛk.sjɔ̃\. It ranks #7,451 in French word frequency. Often confused with Intention and invention.

Key facts for injection
PropertyValue
Headwordinjection
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɛ̃.ʒɛk.sjɔ̃\
Letters9
Frequency rank#7,451
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs12
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of injection in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for injection is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ̃.ʒɛk.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,451 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.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 injection, with forms such as "ijnection", "inejction", and "injcetion". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "Intention", "invention", "insertion", 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 injection, spelled I-N-J-E-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

  1. 1
    Action par laquelle on injecte un liquide dans le corps ou dans une plaie.
  2. 2
    Liquide que l’on injecte.
  3. 3
    Action d’injecter divers produit dans un cadavre dans un but de conservation ou de préparation à une dissection.
  4. 4
    Action d’injecter une matière étrangère dans un environnement.
  5. 5
    Dispositif d’alimentation d’un moteur à explosion, permettant d'acheminer le mélange air-essence dans la chambre de combustion.
  6. 6
    Applicationf d'un ensemble dans un autre telle que tout élément de son ensemble d'arrivée a au plus un antécédent par f, ce qui revient à dire que deux éléments distincts de son ensemble de départ ne peuvent pas avoir la même image par f.
  7. 7
    Envoi d’information (requête, code, courant, tension) à une unité de traitement pour extraire une information.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ijnection,inejction,injcetion,injecction,injeciton,injectino,injectionn,injectoin,injecttion,injetcion,injjection,innjection,nijection

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for injection

Misspelling Variants of "injection"

ijnection9inejction9injcetion9injecction10injeciton9injectino9injectionn10injectoin9
Misspelling Variants of "injection"

Frequency rank: #7,451 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "injection"?
"injection" is spelled I-N-J-E-C-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛ̃.ʒɛk.sjɔ̃\.
What does "injection" mean?
As a noun, "injection" means: Action par laquelle on injecte un liquide dans le corps ou dans une plaie.
What words are commonly confused with "injection"?
"injection" is commonly confused with "Intention", "invention", "insertion". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "injection"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "injection" is \ɛ̃.ʒɛk.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "injection" come from?
"injection" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.