talion
\ta.ljɔ̃\
The verdict
“talion” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,767. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,767
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pénalité qui consiste à infliger au coupable le traitement même qu’il a fait subir ou voulu faire subir à sa victime.
Corpus desk
Index FR-talion · talion · French
talion · rank #44,767 · 8 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,767
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Talence
Nearest frequency peer: Talence (-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 « talion »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- tacler
tacler
55,237 corpus weight
- Talence
Talence
55,235 corpus weight
- talion
talion
55,234 corpus weight
- tapettes
tapettes
55,233 corpus weight
- tarente
tarente
55,232 corpus weight
- tarmac
tarmac
55,231 corpus weight
What this shows « talion » 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 | talion |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ta.ljɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #44,767 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « talion »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around talion (IPA \ta.ljɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #44,767 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pénalité qui consiste à infliger au coupable le traitement même qu’il a fait subir ou voulu faire subir à sa victime.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for talion, with forms such as "atlion", "tailon", and "talino". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "talon", "talons", "tampon", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is talion, spelled T-A-L-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Pénalité qui consiste à infliger au coupable le traitement même qu’il a fait subir ou voulu faire subir à sa victime.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how talion appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les femmes qui, ne voulant rien concevoir aux passions des artistes, leur imposent le talion de leurs vertus, en s’imaginant que les deux sexes se gouvernent par les mêmes lois.
Et on ne l’a pas guillotiné, ce père-là ! on ne lui a pas appliqué la peine du talion à cet assassin de son enfant, on n’a pas supplicié ce lâche, on ne l’a pas enterré vivant à côté de la morte !
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- atlion
- tailon
- talino
- talionn
- tallion
- taloin
- tlaion
- ttalion
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of talion - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).