motion
\mɔ.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“motion” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,980. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,980
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mouvement de va-et-vient du métier servant à faire la torsion des fils.
Corpus desk
Index FR-motion · motion · French
motion · rank #6,980 · 8 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,980
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Nelson
Nearest frequency peer: Nelson (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « motion »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- mentionner
mentionner
93,024 corpus weight
- meurent
meurent
93,023 corpus weight
- motion
motion
93,021 corpus weight
- Nelson
Nelson
93,020 corpus weight
- nobel
nobel
93,019 corpus weight
- organisées
organisées
93,018 corpus weight
What this shows « motion » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | motion |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɔ.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #6,980 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « motion »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around motion (IPA \mɔ.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,980 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for motion, with forms such as "mmotion", "moiton", and "motino". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 14 confusable-pair relationships, "motos", "motor", "mouton", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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. The correct French form is motion, spelled M-O-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Mouvement de va-et-vient du métier servant à faire la torsion des fils.
- 2Proposition faite dans une assemblée délibérante.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how motion appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Deux motions sont nécessaires pour une torsion des fils (...) le tulle est à huit motions, quand quatre torsions de fils suffisent pour former une treille.
Motion d’ordre, proposition qui a pour objet particulier l’ordre de la discussion.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mmotion
- moiton
- motino
- motionn
- motoin
- mottion
- mtoion
- omtion
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of motion - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).