leçon
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,467
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
leçon is aFrenchnoun. It means: Petite portion d’une discipline enseignée à un groupe de personnes ou à une seule personne. Pronounced \lə.sɔ̃\. It ranks #3,467 in French word frequency. Often confused with leo and Lyon.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | leçon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lə.sɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #3,467 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for leçon is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lə.sɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,467 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for leçon, with forms such as "elçon", "lecon", and "leoçn". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "leo", "Lyon", "lion", 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 leçon, spelled L-E-Ç-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Petite portion d’une discipline enseignée à un groupe de personnes ou à une seule personne.
- 2Ce que le maître donne à l’écolier à apprendre et que celui-ci doit répéter, généralement par cœur.
- 3Instructions ou conseils donnés à une personne relativement à sa conduite dans la vie ou dans quelque affaire.
- 4Avertissement salutaire ou correction qu’on reçoit des personnes ou des choses.
- 5Texte d’un auteur, par comparaison à une ou plusieurs autres copies du même texte.
- 6Récit qui diffère d’un autre relatif au même fait.
- 7Petit chapitre de l’écriture ou des pères, qui fait partie du bréviaire, et que l’on récite ou que l’on chante à matines.
- 8Genre musical créé pour accompagner les leçons (au sens de « textes religieux ») pendant la semaine sainte.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: elçon,lecon,leoçn,leçno,leçonn,lleçon,lçeon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for leçon
Misspelling Variants of "leçon"
Frequency rank: #3,467 in French
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Nearby French words
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