tradition
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,201
in French word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
tradition is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de transmettre. Pronounced \tʁa.di.sjɔ̃\. It ranks #2,201 in French word frequency. Often confused with traduction and transition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tradition |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁa.di.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #2,201 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tradition is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tʁa.di.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,201 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for tradition, with forms such as "rtadition", "tardition", and "traddition". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "traduction", "transition", "traditions", 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 tradition, spelled T-R-A-D-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
- 1Action de transmettre.
- 2Déplacement de la possession d’une chose par la vente.
- 3Mode de transmission naturel de tout ou partie de la culture d’un peuple, de génération en génération, au sein de la vie ordinaire (par opposition à l’enseignement d’élite ou moderne, aux médias, etc.).
- 4Élément de la culture ainsi transmis naturellement, choses sues par la voie de la tradition : connaissances, pratiques, morale…
- 5Ensemble d’habitudes propres à un groupe social ou professionnel.
- 6Interprétation, par les théologiens, des textes sacrés des religions.
- 7Livraison d’une chose à quelqu’un.
- 8Variété de baguette, élaborée à l’ancienne.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: rtadition,tardition,traddition,tradiiton,traditino,traditionn,traditoin,tradittion,tradtiion,traidtion,trdaition,trradition,ttradition
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for tradition
Misspelling Variants of "tradition"
Frequency rank: #2,201 in French
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