selon
\sə.lɔ̃\
The verdict
“selon” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #225. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #225
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - D’après ; eu égard à ; conformément à ; d’une manière correspondant à ; en proportion ; en fonction de.
Corpus desk
Index FR-selon · selon · French
selon · rank #225 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #225
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH droit
Nearest frequency peer: droit (-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 « selon »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- lors
lors
99,779 corpus weight
- vrai
vrai
99,778 corpus weight
- droit
droit
99,777 corpus weight
- selon
selon
99,776 corpus weight
- coup
coup
99,775 corpus weight
- mettre
mettre
99,774 corpus weight
What this shows « selon » 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 | selon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Preposition |
| IPA | \sə.lɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #225 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « selon »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around selon (IPA \sə.lɔ̃\), apreposition. Corpus frequency is #225 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for selon, with forms such as "eslon", "sellon", and "selno". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "son", "seo", "sen", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is selon, spelled S-E-L-O-N.
Definition
- 1D’après ; eu égard à ; conformément à ; d’une manière correspondant à ; en proportion ; en fonction de.
- 2En fonction de l’occurrence, des différentes dispositions des personnes, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how selon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il offre des sacrifices, aux autres dieux selon le rite albain, à Hercule selon le rite grec, suivant en cela la règle établie par Évandre.
Grâce au monde végétal va s'ouvrir la porte du merveilleux : ainsi, le parfum des plantes touchées par un arc-en-ciel, aussi suave, selon Pline, que celui de l’alhagi.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eslon
- sellon
- selno
- selonn
- seoln
- sleon
- sselon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of selon - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).