session
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,962
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
session is aFrenchnoun. It means: Temps pendant lequel un corps délibérant est assemblé. Pronounced \sɛ.sjɔ̃\. It ranks #3,962 in French word frequency. Often confused with sessions and season.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | session |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛ.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #3,962 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for session is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɛ.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,962 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 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 session, with forms such as "esssion", "sesion", and "sesison". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "sessions", "season", "section", 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 session, spelled S-E-S-S-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Temps pendant lequel un corps délibérant est assemblé.
- 2Une des périodes durant lesquelles se tiennent les examens, auditions, entretiens ou sélections auxquels un élève ou étudiant est convoqué, en vue de l’obtention d’un diplôme ou d’un certificat sanctionnant sa formation, ou pour l’admission d’un candidat à un concours, et qui se concluent par la délibération d’un jury réuni dans la même période.
- 3Séance d’un concile.
- 4Article qui renferme les décisions publiées dans la séance du concile.
- 5Semestre.
- 6Séance d'enregistrement.
- 7Séquence ordonnée des interactions entre un utilisateur et une application sur un ordinateur (ou un service sur un serveur dans un réseau).
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: esssion,sesion,sesison,sessino,sessionn,sessoin,ssesion,ssession
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for session
Misspelling Variants of "session"
Frequency rank: #3,962 in French
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