union
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#858
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
15
similar word pairs
union is aFrenchnoun. It means: Opérateur de la théorie des ensembles, qui regroupe au sein d'un même ensemble les éléments de deux ensembles. Désigne également l'opération (le fait d'unir deux ensembles) ainsi que le résultat de... Pronounced \y.njɔ̃\. It ranks #858 in French word frequency. Often confused with Uno and unis.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | union |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \y.njɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #858 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for union is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \y.njɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #858 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for union, with forms such as "nuion", "uinon", and "unino". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "Uno", "unis", "unir", 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 union, spelled U-N-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Opérateur de la théorie des ensembles, qui regroupe au sein d'un même ensemble les éléments de deux ensembles. Désigne également l'opération (le fait d'unir deux ensembles) ainsi que le résultat de cette opération, c'est-à-dire l'ensemble contenant tous les éléments appartenant à deux autres ensembles.
- 2Liaison établie entre deux ou plusieurs choses de manière qu’elles ne forment qu’un seul tout.
- 3Concorde, bonne intelligence, liaison étroite, conformité d’efforts.
- 4Mariage.
- 5Rapport sexuel.
- 6Jonction de deux ou de plusieurs choses qui de leur nature étaient séparées.
- 7Groupement d’individus, de sociétés ou de collectivités qui s’associent en vue d’un certain but.
- 8Rare, l'Union européenne
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: nuion,uinon,unino,unionn,unnion,unoin
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for union
Misspelling Variants of "union"
Frequency rank: #858 in French
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