interdiction
Letters
12 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,338
in French word usage
Misspellings
18
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
interdiction is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action d’interdire. Pronounced \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.dik.sjɔ̃\. It ranks #3,338 in French word frequency. Often confused with intersection and interdictions.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | interdiction |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.dik.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #3,338 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for interdiction is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.dik.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,338 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 18 documented wrong-spelling variants for interdiction, with forms such as "inetrdiction", "innterdiction", and "intedriction". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "intersection", "interdictions", "interaction", 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 interdiction, spelled I-N-T-E-R-D-I-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’interdire.
- 2Défense, perpétuelle ou temporaire, de continuer l’exercice de certaines fonctions, faite par sentence ou arrêt, par décision d’une autorité supérieure.
- 3Privation, déchéance totale ou partielle des droits, prononcée par le juge contre celui qui a été reconnu coupable.
- 4Action d’ôter à quelqu’un la libre disposition de ses biens, et même de sa personne, quand on reconnaît qu’il est en état d’imbécillité, de démence ou de fureur.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: inetrdiction,innterdiction,intedriction,interdcition,interddiction,interdicction,interdiciton,interdictino,interdictionn,interdictoin,interdicttion,interditcion,interidction,interrdiction,intrediction,intterdiction,itnerdiction,niterdiction
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "interdiction"
Frequency rank: #3,338 in French
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