séduction
\se.dyk.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“séduction” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,924. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,924
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action par laquelle on séduit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-seduction · séduction · French
séduction · rank #9,924 · 14 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,924
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH surprend
Nearest frequency peer: surprend (-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 « séduction »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- stricte
stricte
90,080 corpus weight
- suggestions
suggestions
90,079 corpus weight
- surprend
surprend
90,078 corpus weight
- séduction
séduction
90,077 corpus weight
- tabou
tabou
90,076 corpus weight
- taff
taff
90,075 corpus weight
What this shows « séduction » 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 | séduction |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \se.dyk.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #9,924 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « séduction »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around séduction (IPA \se.dyk.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,924 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for séduction, with forms such as "sdéuction", "seduction", and "sséduction". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "sélection", "section", "sédition", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is séduction, spelled S-É-D-U-C-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action par laquelle on séduit.
- 2Attrait ou agrément qui rend certaines choses propres à séduire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how séduction appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…], ces femmes d’une nature à part. Tout en elles est, en effet, plein de séduction : leurs poses sont aussi ravissantes que leur démarche ; […]
Il employa l’argent, les promesses, et tout ce qui peut contribuer à la séduction.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- sdéuction
- seduction
- sséduction
- sédcution
- sédduction
- séducction
- séduciton
- séductino
- séductionn
- séductoin
- séducttion
- sédutcion
- séudction
- ésduction
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of séduction - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "séduction", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).