vision
\vi.zjɔ̃\
The verdict
“vision” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,615. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,615
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action, capacité de voir ; vue.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vision · vision · French
vision · rank #1,615 · 8 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,615
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vice
Nearest frequency peer: vice (-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 « vision »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- univers
univers
98,389 corpus weight
- venez
venez
98,388 corpus weight
- vice
vice
98,387 corpus weight
- vision
vision
98,386 corpus weight
- écran
écran
98,385 corpus weight
- acteurs
acteurs
98,384 corpus weight
What this shows « vision » 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 | vision |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vi.zjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,615 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « vision »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around vision (IPA \vi.zjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,615 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for vision, with forms such as "ivsion", "viison", and "visino". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "vison", "visit", "visite", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is vision, spelled V-I-S-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action, capacité de voir ; vue.
- 2Perception, en esprit ou par les yeux du corps, d’une réalité surnaturelle.
- 3Chimère, image vaine que la peur, la folie, ou toute autre cause particulière produit dans l’esprit.
- 4Idée folle, extravagante.
- 5Projection dans le futur ; imagination du futur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vision appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ses yeux, doués d’une extrême puissance de vision, comme tous ceux de ces indigènes nomades, habitués aux ténèbres des longues nuits de l’hiver arctique, ne pouvaient la tromper.
[…], nous passons sous le pont suspendu de Brooklyn et devant Manhattan et ses gratte-ciel, et ma dernière vision de New-York me laisse une impression de ville monstrueuse et titanesque.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ivsion
- viison
- visino
- visionn
- visoin
- vission
- vsiion
- vvision
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of vision - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "vision", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).