possession
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,558
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
possession is aFrenchnoun. It means: Jouissance, faculté actuelle de disposer ou de jouir d’un bien. Pronounced \pɔ.sɛ.sjɔ̃\. It ranks #3,558 in French word frequency. Often confused with possessions and possessif.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | possession |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔ.sɛ.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #3,558 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for possession is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɔ.sɛ.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,558 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for possession, with forms such as "opssession", "posession", and "posesssion". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "possessions", "possessif", 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 possession, spelled P-O-S-S-E-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
- 1Jouissance, faculté actuelle de disposer ou de jouir d’un bien.
- 2Rapport possessif ou analogue à la possession, exprimé par les adjectifs possessifs comme ma, les pronoms possessifs comme le mien, les adpositions comme de, les verbes comme avoir, etc.
- 3Terres possédées par un État ou par un particulier.
- 4Jouissance de certains plaisirs, de certaines choses qu’on a recherchées avec ardeur.
- 5État d’un homme qu’on dit possédé par le démon.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: opssession,posession,posesssion,possesion,possesison,possessino,possessionn,possessoin,posssesion,ppossession,psosession
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for possession
Misspelling Variants of "possession"
Frequency rank: #3,558 in French
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