succession

/\syk.se.sjɔ̃\/ noun

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#4,102

in French word usage

Misspellings

11

tracked variants

Confusables

3

similar word pairs

succession is aFrenchnoun. It means: Suite ou série de personnes ou de choses qui se succèdent les unes aux autres sans interruption, ou à peu d’intervalle l’une de l’autre. Pronounced \syk.se.sjɔ̃\. It ranks #4,102 in French word frequency. Often confused with successions and sécession.

Key facts for succession
PropertyValue
Headwordsuccession
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\syk.se.sjɔ̃\
Letters10
Frequency rank#4,102
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of succession in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for succession is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \syk.se.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,102 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for succession, with forms such as "scucession", "ssuccession", and "succesion". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "successions", "sécession", "successifs", 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 succession, spelled S-U-C-C-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

  1. 1
    Suite ou série de personnes ou de choses qui se succèdent les unes aux autres sans interruption, ou à peu d’intervalle l’une de l’autre.
  2. 2
    Héritage, transmission de biens à la mort d’une personne.
  3. 3
    Manière dont se fait la transmission des héritages.
  4. 4
    Mention apposée sur une œuvre pour indiquer qu’elle provient d’un legs, d’une donation ou d’une dation.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: scucession,ssuccession,succesion,succesison,successino,successionn,successoin,succsesion,sucecssion,sucession,usccession

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for succession

Misspelling Variants of "succession"

scucession10ssuccession11succesion9succesison10successino10successionn11successoin10succsesion10
Misspelling Variants of "succession"

Frequency rank: #4,102 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "succession"?
"succession" is spelled S-U-C-C-E-S-S-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \syk.se.sjɔ̃\.
What does "succession" mean?
As a noun, "succession" means: Suite ou série de personnes ou de choses qui se succèdent les unes aux autres sans interruption, ou à peu d’intervalle l’une de l’autre.
What words are commonly confused with "succession"?
"succession" is commonly confused with "successions", "sécession", "successifs". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "succession"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "succession" is \syk.se.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "succession" come from?
"succession" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.