subversion
\syb.vɛʁ.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“subversion” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,319. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,319
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Renversement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-subversion · subversion · French
subversion · rank #34,319 · 15 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,319
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH spécifie
Nearest frequency peer: spécifie (-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 « subversion »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- sotte
sotte
65,685 corpus weight
- soulignée
soulignée
65,684 corpus weight
- spécifie
spécifie
65,683 corpus weight
- subversion
subversion
65,682 corpus weight
- superbement
superbement
65,680 corpus weight
- supportés
supportés
65,679 corpus weight
What this shows « subversion » 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 | subversion |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \syb.vɛʁ.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #34,319 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « subversion »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around subversion (IPA \syb.vɛʁ.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,319 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Renversement.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for subversion, with forms such as "sbuversion", "ssubversion", and "subbversion". 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, "subversive", "subversif", "Subvention", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is subversion, spelled S-U-B-V-E-R-S-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Renversement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how subversion appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Enfin, s'il était fait le moindre outrage à la famille royale, […], leurs Majestés Impériales et Royale livreraient Paris à une exécution militaire et à une subversion totale.
Car la chanson a été importante dans le dispositif d'une subversion politique qui, tout compte fait, a peut-être plus avancé par le 45 tours que par le tract, par le mange-disques que par le cocktail Molotov.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- sbuversion
- ssubversion
- subbversion
- subevrsion
- subverison
- subverrsion
- subversino
- subversionn
- subversoin
- subverssion
- subvesrion
- subvresion
- subvversion
- suvbersion
- usbversion
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of subversion - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).