mission
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#848
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
mission is aFrenchnoun. It means: Charge qu’on donne à quelqu’un, avec pleins pouvoirs pour faire quelque chose. Pronounced \mi.sjɔ̃\. It ranks #848 in French word frequency. Often confused with moisson and missive.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mission |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #848 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for mission is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mi.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #848 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for mission, with forms such as "imssion", "mision", and "misison". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "moisson", "missive", "missions", 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 mission, spelled M-I-S-S-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Charge qu’on donne à quelqu’un, avec pleins pouvoirs pour faire quelque chose.
- 2But de son action.
- 3Compagnie de prêtres, séculiers ou réguliers, envoyés dans des pays lointains pour la conversion des infidèles.
- 4Chacune des maisons où demeuraient les pères de la mission.
- 5Lieu de vie collective (forcée ou non) organisé par une institution et se donnant (légitimement ou non) une mission éducative.
- 6Suite de prédications, de catéchismes et de conférences que les missionnaires diocésains font en quelque endroit pour l’instruction des chrétiens.
- 7Les missionnaires eux-mêmes.
- 8Envoi d’une ou de plusieurs personnes pour un but scientifique, militaire ou politique.
- 9Nom donné à la représentation d’un État auprès d’une organisation dont il n’est pas membre.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: imssion,mision,misison,missino,missionn,missoin,mmission,msision
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for mission
Misspelling Variants of "mission"
Frequency rank: #848 in French
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Other entries that begin with the letter M in our French index: