saison

/\sɛ.zɔ̃\/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#392

in French word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

saison is aFrenchnoun. It means: Période de l’année qui observe une relative constance du climat et de la température. Pronounced \sɛ.zɔ̃\. It ranks #392 in French word frequency. Often confused with Sion and sinon.

Key facts for saison
PropertyValue
Headwordsaison
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sɛ.zɔ̃\
Letters6
Frequency rank#392
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of saison in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for saison is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɛ.zɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #392 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 11 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 saison, with forms such as "asison", "saiosn", and "saisno". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Sion", "sinon", "salon", 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 saison, spelled S-A-I-S-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Période de l’année qui observe une relative constance du climat et de la température.
  2. 2
    Dans les pays tempérés, division en quatre de l’année : printemps, été, automne et hiver.
  3. 3
    Période de l’année marquée par quelque chose de particulier.
  4. 4
    Les mois d’été.
  5. 5
    Époque où paraissent certaines productions de la terre où l’on a coutume soit de semer, soit de recueillir grains ou fruits.
  6. 6
    Temps propice aux affaires, aux réunions mondaines, au tourisme, aux bains de mer, etc.
  7. 7
    Moment opportun.
  8. 8
    Période de l’année durant laquelle des spectacles, concerts, sont présentés (généralement de septembre à juin).
  9. 9
    Période de l’année durant laquelle des équipes ou joueurs s’affrontent et qui se termine généralement par un championnat.
  10. 10
    Âges de la vie.
  11. 11
    Ensemble des champs cultivés avec la même culture, dans le cadre d’une rotation triennale.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: asison,saiosn,saisno,saisonn,saisson,sasion,siason,ssaison

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for saison

Misspelling Variants of "saison"

asison6saiosn6saisno6saisonn7saisson7sasion6siason6ssaison7
Misspelling Variants of "saison"

Frequency rank: #392 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "saison"?
"saison" is spelled S-A-I-S-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \sɛ.zɔ̃\.
What does "saison" mean?
As a noun, "saison" means: Période de l’année qui observe une relative constance du climat et de la température.
What words are commonly confused with "saison"?
"saison" is commonly confused with "Sion", "sinon", "salon". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "saison"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "saison" is \sɛ.zɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "saison" come from?
"saison" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.