scission
\si.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“scission” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,062. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,062
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Séparation, division dans une assemblée politique, dans un parti, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-scission · scission · French
scission · rank #18,062 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,062
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sauces
Nearest frequency peer: sauces (-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 « scission »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- saloperie
saloperie
81,942 corpus weight
- sand
sand
81,941 corpus weight
- sauces
sauces
81,940 corpus weight
- scission
scission
81,939 corpus weight
- secoué
secoué
81,938 corpus weight
- security
security
81,937 corpus weight
What this shows « scission » 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 | scission |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \si.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #18,062 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « scission »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around scission (IPA \si.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,062 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for scission, with forms such as "csission", "sccission", and "scision". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "session", "sécession", "Scipion", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is scission, spelled S-C-I-S-S-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Séparation, division dans une assemblée politique, dans un parti, etc.
- 2Étape de la fission nucléaire dans laquelle le noyau fissile se sépare en au moins deux fragments.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how scission appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vingt ans durant, il a eu à faire face à l’une des plus fortes tentatives de scission que le christianisme ait connu depuis l’Arianisme et avant le Protestantisme : il a vu se dresser, devant lui, le Catharisme, ou mouvement des Albigeois, et l’hérésie vaudoise.
Sous la lumière rasante de l’aube, la ligne bleu sombre de la mer s’argentait, mais le Nord restait très noir, comme si cette Saint-Jean, loin de marquer la nuit la plus courte de l’été, n’avait annoncé que la scission du monde, la nuit demeurant au Nord, le jour dévorant le Sud.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- csission
- sccission
- scision
- scisison
- scissino
- scissionn
- scissoin
- scsision
- sicssion
- sscission
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of scission - 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
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