religion
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,189
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
religion is aFrenchnoun. It means: Système de représentation du monde et de croyances fondé sur la foi, et consolidé par l’accomplissement de rites dans le cadre d’un culte rendu à une ou plusieurs puissances, souvent célestes. Pronounced \ʁə.li.ʒjɔ̃\. It ranks #1,189 in French word frequency. Often confused with révision and religions.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | religion |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁə.li.ʒjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #1,189 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for religion is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁə.li.ʒjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,189 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 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 religion, with forms such as "erligion", "reilgion", and "relgiion". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "révision", "religions", "région", 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 religion, spelled R-E-L-I-G-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Système de représentation du monde et de croyances fondé sur la foi, et consolidé par l’accomplissement de rites dans le cadre d’un culte rendu à une ou plusieurs puissances, souvent célestes.
- 2Culte qu’on rend à la divinité.
- 3(Sens courant) Doctrine religieuse.
- 4Foi ; croyance ; piété ; dévotion.
- 5(En particulier) Conception particulière de la foi qu’un croyant fidèle à l’Église exprime dans son œuvre.
- 6Philosophie, principe fondamental assimilable à une religion chez une personne.
- 7(Droit canon) État des personnes s’étant engagées par des vœux solennels à suivre une règle au sein d’un ordre monastique.
- 8Ordre de Malte.
- 9Scrupule, obligation rigoureuse qu’on s’impose, respect de règles presque sacrées.
- 10Fondement, matière à penser.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: erligion,reilgion,relgiion,religgion,religino,religionn,religoin,reliigon,relligion,rleigion,rreligion
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for religion
Misspelling Variants of "religion"
Frequency rank: #1,189 in French
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