inspection
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,206
in French word usage
Misspellings
15
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
inspection is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action d’examiner avec attention ; observation. Pronounced \ɛ̃s.pɛk.sjɔ̃\. It ranks #6,206 in French word frequency. Often confused with inspections and infection.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | inspection |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃s.pɛk.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #6,206 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for inspection is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ̃s.pɛk.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,206 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 15 documented wrong-spelling variants for inspection, with forms such as "innspection", "inpsection", and "insepction". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "inspections", "infection", "injection", 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 inspection, spelled I-N-S-P-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
- 1Action d’examiner avec attention ; observation.
- 2Action d’examiner avec soin ce qu’on a la fonction de surveiller.
- 3Fonction d’inspecteur.
- 4Endroit où sont les bureaux de celui qui remplit cette fonction.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: innspection,inpsection,insepction,inspcetion,inspecction,inspeciton,inspectino,inspectionn,inspectoin,inspecttion,inspetcion,insppection,insspection,isnpection,nispection
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for inspection
Misspelling Variants of "inspection"
Frequency rank: #6,206 in French
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