Sion
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#16,741
in French word usage
Misspellings
2
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Sion is aFrenchname. It means: Colline de Jérusalem et montagne sacrée, considérée comme l'emplacement historique du palais du roi David et du temple de Salomon. Pronounced \sjɔ̃\. Often confused with so and sn.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Sion |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Name |
| IPA | \sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #16,741 |
| Misspellings tracked | 2 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Sion is 4 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #16,741 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 2 documented wrong-spelling variants for Sion, including "ison" and "ssion". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "so", "sn", "son", 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 Sion, spelled S-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Colline de Jérusalem et montagne sacrée, considérée comme l'emplacement historique du palais du roi David et du temple de Salomon.
- 2Symbole de Jérusalem ; symbole du pays des Hébreux, ou du peuple lui-même.
- 3La ville de Jérusalem restaurée, terre promise.
- 4La Jérusalem céleste.
- 5Paradis sur terre, Jérusalem.
- 6Synonyme de Sion-Vaudémont ou de Saxon-Sion, en Meurthe-et-Moselle, La Colline inspirée de Maurice Barrès.
- 7Nom poétique ou symbolique du pays d'Israël, en tant que terre d'accueil de tous les juifs.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ison,ssion
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "Sion"
Frequency rank: #16,741 in French
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