insertion
\ɛ̃.sɛʁ.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“insertion” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,116. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,116
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’insérer ou état de ce qui est inséré.
Corpus desk
Index FR-insertion · insertion · French
insertion · rank #8,116 · 13 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,116
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH informatiques
Nearest frequency peer: informatiques (-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 « insertion »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- impasse
impasse
91,888 corpus weight
- incidents
incidents
91,887 corpus weight
- informatiqu…
informatiques
91,886 corpus weight
- insertion
insertion
91,885 corpus weight
- jadis
jadis
91,884 corpus weight
- lin
lin
91,883 corpus weight
What this shows « insertion » 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 | insertion |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.sɛʁ.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #8,116 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « insertion »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around insertion (IPA \ɛ̃.sɛʁ.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,116 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for insertion, with forms such as "inesrtion", "innsertion", and "inseriton". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "Intention", "invention", "inversion", 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 its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is insertion, spelled I-N-S-E-R-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action d’insérer ou état de ce qui est inséré.
- 2Zone de liaison entre deux tissus ou deux organes de nature différente.
- 3Addition d’une séquence d’ADN étranger dans une molécule d’ADN donnée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how insertion appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On ne s’improvise pas usurier, il faut parvenir d’abord à une méritoire insertion dans la mafia des gens bien placés pour exploiter leur prochain.
L’insertion d’un feuillet dans un livre.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- inesrtion
- innsertion
- inseriton
- inserrtion
- insertino
- insertionn
- insertoin
- inserttion
- insetrion
- insretion
- inssertion
- isnertion
- nisertion
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of insertion - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
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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).