rémission
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#26,862
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
rémission is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pardon. Pronounced \ʁe.mi.sjɔ̃\. Often confused with révision.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rémission |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁe.mi.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #26,862 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for rémission is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁe.mi.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #26,862 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for rémission, with forms such as "remission", "rméission", and "rrémission". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "révision", 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 rémission, spelled R-É-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
- 1Pardon.
- 2Grâce que le prince faisait à un criminel, en lui remettant la peine qu’il avait encourue suivant les lois.
- 3Lettres de rémission; lettres patentes expédiées en chancellerie et adressées aux juges, par lesquelles le roi accordait à un criminel la rémission de son crime, en cas que ce qu’il avait exposé à sa décharge se trouvât vrai.
- 4Adoucissement, miséricorde, indulgence dont use une personne qui a droit, autorité ou avantage sur une autre.
- 5Détente.
- 6Diminution, relâchement, en parlant de la fièvre, des maladies aiguës, lorsqu’elles perdent de leur force, de leur intensité.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: remission,rméission,rrémission,réimssion,rémision,rémisison,rémissino,rémissionn,rémissoin,rémmission,rémsision,érmission
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for rémission
Misspelling Variants of "rémission"
Frequency rank: #26,862 in French
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