inversion
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#13,817
in French word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
inversion is aFrenchnoun. It means: Attirance sexuelle pour les personnes du même sexe, homosexualité. Pronounced \ɛ̃.vɛʁ.sjɔ̃\. Often confused with invasion and invention.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | inversion |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.vɛʁ.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #13,817 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for inversion is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ̃.vɛʁ.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #13,817 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 9 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 inversion, with forms such as "inevrsion", "innversion", and "inverison". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "invasion", "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 inversion, spelled I-N-V-E-R-S-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Attirance sexuelle pour les personnes du même sexe, homosexualité.
- 2Changement de l’ordre dans lequel les mots sont ordinairement rangés dans le discours.
- 3Évolution par laquelle les bâtiments qui étaient en tête se trouvent en queue.
- 4Anomalie consistant en ce fait qu’un ou plusieurs organes se trouvent du côté du corps opposé à celui qu’ils occupent normalement.
- 5Mouvement qui fait porter la face plantaire latéralement vers l'intérieur.
- 6Disposition d’un corps qui, au lieu d’avoir sa première subdivision à sa droite, l’a, au contraire, à sa gauche.
- 7Reproduction d’une phrase musicale en prenant les notes dans un ordre renversé ou différent.
- 8Processus conduisant à un changement d’orientation d’un fragment d’ADN par rapport à son orientation de référence.
- 9Permutation du flux des fumées de combustion et du flux d’air froid dans les empilages d’un four à régénération.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: inevrsion,innversion,inverison,inverrsion,inversino,inversionn,inversoin,inverssion,invesrion,invresion,invversion,ivnersion,niversion
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for inversion
Misspelling Variants of "inversion"
Frequency rank: #13,817 in French
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "inversion"?
What does "inversion" mean?
What words are commonly confused with "inversion"?
How do you pronounce "inversion"?
What language does "inversion" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter I in our French index: