section
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,574
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
section is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de couper, de diviser ou résultat de cette action. Pronounced \sɛk.sjɔ̃\. It ranks #1,574 in French word frequency. Often confused with station and session.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | section |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛk.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,574 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for section is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɛk.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,574 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for section, with forms such as "esction", "scetion", and "secction". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "station", "session", "sections", 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 section, spelled S-E-C-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Action de couper, de diviser ou résultat de cette action.
- 2Division ou subdivision d’un ouvrage, d’un traité, d’un compte, d’une ville, d’un tribunal, d’un conseil, d’une académie, d’un établissement d’enseignement, fraction d’un corps de troupe, etc.
- 3Assemblée générale permanente révolutionnaire durant la Convention.
- 4Petite unité, subdivisée en escouades et regroupée en pelotons.
- 5Désigne, dans certaines écoles, celui qui est le premier de sa promotion.
- 6se dit de la ligne, de la surface suivant laquelle se coupent deux surfaces, un volume et une surface.
- 7Document graphique représentant exclusivement l’intersection du plan de coupe et de la matière de l’élément.
- 8Taxon de bas niveau, placé immédiatement sous le sous-genre.
- 9Subdivision des communes correspondant aux anciennes communes avant la fusion des communes.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: esction,scetion,secction,seciton,sectino,sectionn,sectoin,secttion,setcion,ssection
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for section
Misspelling Variants of "section"
Frequency rank: #1,574 in French
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Nearby French words
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