superstition
Letters
12 characters
Frequency Rank
#25,828
in French word usage
Misspellings
18
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
superstition is aFrenchnoun. It means: Croyance irraisonnée fondée sur la crainte ou l’ignorance qui prête un caractère surnaturel ou sacré à certains phénomènes, à certains actes, à certaines paroles. Pronounced \sy.pɛʁ.sti.sjɔ̃\. Often confused with superstitions.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | superstition |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sy.pɛʁ.sti.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #25,828 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for superstition is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sy.pɛʁ.sti.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #25,828 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 18 documented wrong-spelling variants for superstition, with forms such as "spuerstition", "ssuperstition", and "sueprstition". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "superstitions", 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 superstition, spelled S-U-P-E-R-S-T-I-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Croyance irraisonnée fondée sur la crainte ou l’ignorance qui prête un caractère surnaturel ou sacré à certains phénomènes, à certains actes, à certaines paroles.
- 2Pratiques inspirées par cette croyance.
- 3Vain présage qu’on tire de certains accidents qui sont purement fortuits.
- 4Attention excessive apportée à des détails, au détriment du sens. [Tout excès d’exactitude, de soin, en quelque matière que ce soit.]
- 5Ce qui subsiste, ce qui perdure.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: spuerstition,ssuperstition,sueprstition,superrstition,supersittion,supersstition,superstiiton,superstitino,superstitionn,superstitoin,superstittion,supersttiion,supersttition,supertsition,supesrtition,supperstition,suprestition,usperstition
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for superstition
Misspelling Variants of "superstition"
Frequency rank: #25,828 in French
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