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Definition: Correction |
CorrectionNoun1. The act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake. 2. A quantity that is added or subtracted in order to increase the accuracy of a scientific measure. 3. Something substituted for an error. 4. A rebuke for making a mistake. 5. The act of punishing; "the offenders deserved the harsh discipline they received". 6. Treatment of a specific defect; "the correction of his vision with eye glasses". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "correction" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Aerospace | A quantity, equal in absolute magnitude to the error, added to a calculated or observed value to obtain the true value. (references) |
Finance | A reverse movement, usually downward, in the price of an individual stock, bond, commodity, index, or the stock market as a whole. Source: European Union. (references) |
Meteorology & Standards | Removal of printing, linguistic and other similar errors from the published text of a normative document. Source: European Union. (references) |
Military | 1. In fire control, any change in firing data to bring the mean point of impact or burst closer to the target. 2. A communication proword to indicate that an error in data has been announced and that corrected data will follow. (references) |
Nuclear Energy & Physics | An entry in an accounting record or a report to rectify an identified mistake or to reflect an improved measurement of a quantity previously entered into the record or report. Each correction must identify the entry to which it pertains. Source: European Union. (references) |
Physics | A quantity which it is necessary to add algebraically to the mesured value in order to obtain the true value of the quantity measured. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: CorrectionSynonyms: chastening (n), chastisement (n), discipline (n), fudge factor (n), rectification (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Confutation | Correction; a; dissuasion. |
Disapprobation | Reprehension, remonstrance, expostulation, reproof, reprobation, admonition, increpation, reproach; rebuke, reprimand, castigation, jobation, lecture, curtain lecture, blow up, wigging, dressing, rating, scolding, trimming; correction, set down, rap on the knuckles, coup de bec, rebuff; slap, slap on the face; home thrust, hit; frown, scowl, black look. |
Humility | Under correction, with due deference. |
Improvement | Reform, reformation; revision, radical reform; second thoughts, correction, limoe labor, refinement, elaboration; purification; oxidation; repair; (restoration); recovery. |
Information | Noun: correction. |
Prison | Noun: prison, prison house; jail, gaol, cage, coop, den, cell; stronghold, fortress, keep, donjon, dungeon, Bastille, oubliette, bridewell, house of correction, hulks, tollbooth, panopticon, penitentiary, guardroom, lockup, hold; round house, watch house, station house, sponging house; station; house of detention, black hole, pen, fold, pound; inclosure; isolation (exclusion); penal settlement, penal colony; bilboes, stocks, limbo, quod; calaboose, chauki, choky, thana; workhouse. |
Punishment | Verb: punish; chastise, chasten; castigate, correct, inflict punishment, administer correction, deal retributive justice; cowhide, lambaste. |
Noun: punishment,punition; chastisement, chastening; correction, castigation. | |
Scourge | House of correction; (prison). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | Correction. I didn't promise I wouldn't (Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael; writing credit: Karen Leigh Hopkins) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Operation Correction (1961) Female Prisoners: Detroit House of Correction (1899) Camp of Correction (1997) | |
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 | Figure 22 (end). Correction information accompanying the certificate of examination and also information concerning the circumstances of testing. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Caption: Dictaphone and Ediphone, Comparison of Correction Controls and Indexes; Unknown Date; {29.310/396} (jpg). |
 | Physical Therapy Department, Deshon General Hospital, Butler, Pennsylvania : Use of the Sayre head sling for the correction of scoliosis. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | House of correction, Detroit, Mich. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Superintendent's residence, house of correction, Detroit, Mich. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| Author | Quotation |
Edward Bulwer-lytton | A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power. |
Hosea Ballou | Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction. |
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower. |
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John Locke | 1690 | This is intended for the parents advantage, as the other is for the child's; though education, the parents duty, seems to have most power, because the ignorance and infirmities of childhood stand in need of restraint and correction; which is a visible exercise of rule, and a kind of dominion. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | Sylvie accepted the correction, but did not attempt to pronounce the word, which was evidently new to her. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Without correction, symptoms generally continue. (references) | |
Current research suggests correction of iron deficiency may improve symptoms for some patients. (references) | ||
However, correcting the defect in people is much more difficult than achieving correction in cells in the laboratory. (references) | ||
Business | Added depreciation of the peso in 1995 helped bring a major correction in that year's balance of payments. (references) | |
Noncommercial food services include institutions such as hospitals, schools, universities and correction centers. (references) | ||
The institutional segment (composed of school cafeterias, hospital food service, correction centers) traditionally accounts for approximately twenty percent of food service sales in Canada. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Fiji | Legislation pertaining to the press is contained in the Newspaper Registration Act and the Press Correction Act. (references) |
Fiji | Should the newspaper refuse to publish the Minister's correction, it may be sued in court and, if found guilty, fined approximately $500 (FJ$1,125), and individuals may be fined, imprisoned for 6 months, or both. (references) | |
Venezuela | On June 12, the Supreme Court denied Santana's request, stating that the media and those who habitually express themselves through the media do not have a right to reply, because "the right to reply and correction has been granted only to those who receive information, not to those who supply it." Santana announced that he would appeal this ruling to the IACHR; the appeal was pending at year's end. (references) | |
Economic History | Cyprus | Since then, the market has undergone a huge correction, which has finally exhibited signs of stabilizing. (references) |
Australia | The Copyright Amendment (Computer Programs) Act of 1999 allows for the copying of computer programs under certain circumstances, for the purposes of interoperability, error correction, and security testing. (references) | |
Lebanon | The plan will take into account a $850 million ten-year water strategy plan that was endorsed by Parliament in 2000, focusing on dam construction (66 percent), drinking water projects (16 percent), water irrigation projects (ten percent), correction and maintenance of river lines (five percent) and electrical equipment (three percent). (references) | |
Human Rights | Yugoslavia | In March 2000, UNMIK established the Kosovo Correction Service (KCS), and the OSCE provided training for a force of 700-plus corrections officers. (references) |
El Salvador | In April the authorities separated the different gangs in the country's juvenile correction centers into different facilities to mitigate violence between rival groups. (references) | |
Russia | According to the GUIN, as of September 1, there were approximately 86,000 tuberculosis-infected persons and 21,576 HIV-infected persons in SIZO'S and correction colonies. (references) | |
Political Economy | BANGLADESH | Due to a high unemployment rate and inadequate enforcement of the laws, workers demanding correction of dangerous working conditions or refusing to participate in perceived dangerous activities risk losing their jobs. (references) |
Political Rights | Zimbabwe | Commissioners also lack authority to order the correction of irregularities. (references) |
Burundi | The Transitional Political Platform endorses in general terms the restoration of democracy and correction of the ethnic imbalance within the army and the judicial system. (references) | |
Women | Finland | In such cases, the law provides for correction of the situation as well as compensation for the complainant. (references) |
Cote d'Ivoire | A severe social stigma is attached to female victims of domestic violence, who are shamed for their presumed bad behavior and need of correction. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Philippines | In addition to fines, the Government also makes use of administrative procedures and moral suasion to encourage voluntary employer correction of violations. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | HOUSE, n. A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beelte, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus and microbe. House of Correction, a place of reward for political and personal service, and for the detention of offenders and appropriations. House of God, a building with a steeple and a mortgage on it. House-dog, a pestilent beast kept on domestic premises to insult persons passing by and appal the hardy visitor. House-maid, a youngerly person of the opposing sex employed to be variously disagreeable and ingeniously unclean in the station in which it has pleased God to place her. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Ulysses S. Grant | 1869-1877 | To this correction I stand committed, so far as Executive influence can avail. |
Herbert C. Hoover | 1929-1933 | Business has by cooperation made great progress in the advancement of service, in stability, in regularity of employment and in the correction of its own abuses. |
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| "Correction" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.14% of the time. "Correction" is used about 589 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.14% | 578 | 10,939 |
| Noun (common) | 1.53% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.34% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 589 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "correction". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Colosse | N/A | Biblical | Correction |
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Expressions using "correction": altitude correction ♦ auto correction ♦ automatic error correction ♦ correction factor ♦ Correction line ♦ correction of an acoustical measurement system ♦ correction of an entry ♦ correction of error ♦ disabuse correction a ♦ Earth's rate correction ♦ error correction code ♦ error detection and correction ♦ forward Error Correction ♦ gamma correction ♦ house of correction ♦ line tilt correction ♦ majority carrier correction method ♦ proof correction ♦ radiometric correction ♦ resolution time correction ♦ resolving time correction ♦ speech correction ♦ subject to correction ♦ under correction. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "correction": Correction-praise, correction-praise'. | |
Ending with "correction": error-correction. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "correction"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | qortim (admonition, chiding, exception, objurgation, observation, rebuke, reprehension, reprimand, reproach, reprobation, reproof, rowing, schooling, scolding, set down, snub, talking to, telling off, twit, wigging), ndreqje (adjustment, amendment, disposition, dressing, mending, rectification, refit, refitment, reform, repair, restoration, settlement), ndëshkim (amercement, castigation, chastisement, comeuppance, discipline, hell, infliction, pain, penalty, penitence, plague, punishment, strafe, what for), luftim (action, battle, combat, engagement, fight, fighting, set to, skirmish, strife, warfare), korrigjim (amelioration, amendment, emendation, equalization, readjustment, reclaim, reclamation, rectification, redress, reform, reformation, repair, retrieval, vetting). (various references) | |
Arabic | مقاومة محايدة, تنقيح (amendment, emendation, redaction, retouch, review, revise, revision), تقويم (almanac, calendar, calibration, schedule), توبيخ (admonition, censure, dressing down, lesson, objurgation, rap, rating, rebuke, reprehension, reprimand, reproach, reproof, scolding, talking to, telling off, upbraiding, wig), تعديل (adjustment, alteration, amendment, arrangement, conformation, focussing, mend, mitigation, modification, modulation, overhaul, permutation, revise), تصحيح (editing, emendation, marking, rectification, rewriting), تأديب (discipline), ضبط تصحيح, إصلاح (betterment, mediation, mend, pacification, pacifying, reclamation, reconcile, reconditioning, recovery, redress, reform, reformation, rehabilitation, remedy, renovation, repair, reparation). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | корекция (rectification), поправка (alteration, amendment, patching, rectification, renovation, repair, reparation, restoration), подобрение (amelioration, amendment, betterment, fertilization, improvement, melioration, pickup, progress, rally, retrieval). (various references) | |
Chinese | 更正 . (various references) | |
Czech | oprava (amendment, mending, repair). (various references) | |
Danish | korrektion (corrective action, springing). (various references) | |
Dutch | correctie (adjustment, correcting entry, correction of error, equalisation, equalization). (various references) | |
Esperanto | bagno (house of correction). (various references) | |
Farsi | غلطگیری , تصحیح (Amendment, Rectification, Redress), تادیب (Discipline), اصلاح (Adjustment, Amendment, Reconciliation, Reformation, Regeneration, Renovation, Repair, Reparation, Revision). (various references) | |
Finnish | korjaus (alteration, repair). (various references) | |
French | rectification, correction (correction of error). (various references) | |
German | Korrektur (adjustment, correcting, emendation, marking, proof, proof correction, proofreading, propriety, readjustment, rectification), Berichtigung (adjustment, amendment, rectification), Verbesserung (amelioration, approvement, betterment, emendation, improvement, melioration, pick up, rectification, refinement, reform, revision, upgrade, upgrading). (various references) | |
Greek | διόρθωση (amendment, emendation, fixing, rectification). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מוסר (chastisement, ethics, instruction, moral, morale, punishment, reproof), תקון (amendment, emendation, improvement, modification, reform, reformation, regulation, repair). (various references) | |
Hungarian | korrigálás (proofing), javítás (amelioration, amendment, corrective maintenance, darn, doing-up, enrichment, fix, improvement, maintenance, rectification, refitting, repair, reparation), helyesbítés (amendment, corrigendum, rectification, rectifying, spot), fenyítés (chastisement, discipline, flogging, punishment). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pembenaran (approval, confirmation, emendantion, endorsement, justification). (various references) | |
Italian | correzione (reading, revision), rettifica (grinding, rectification). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 訂正 (revision), 矯正 (remedy), 添削. (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ふせい (asymmetry, dishonesty, illegality, impropriety, iniquity, injustice, irregular, irregularity, lack of uniformity, nature, negative properties, paternity, revision, transient life, unevenness, unfairness), ていせい (imperial government, imperialism, low voice, monarchical rule, music of the state of Zheng, qualitative, revision, stability of a substance, whisper), け"ぎょう (person who makes corrections, second business, side line, temple or shrine administrator), コレクション (collection), "うせい (aggression, calibration, composition, constancy, correction of press, fairness, fixed star, future generations, future life, hardness, impartiality, justice, life to come, loud or high-pitched voice, made of steel, matchless, offensive, organization, posterity, proofreading, public welfare, rebirth, rectification, regeneration, rehabilitation, reorganization, resuscitation, revision, tropism, unparalleled, Welfare Ministry, younger people), か"か (connivance, crucible, cyclization, dried fruit, fighting, influence, inspiration, leisure, lonely people, pot, reform, separation from the world, shield and halberd, shutting one's eyes to, under the jurisdiction of, war, widow and widower), かひつ (improvement, revision), て"さく, ほせい (adjust), ぜせい (master painter, revision), きょうせい (blackmail, coercion, compulsion, enforcement, extortion, great, lovely voice, low singing voice, magnificent, obligation, paragenesis, persistent demand, reform, remedy, splendid, student teacher, symbiosis, training), しゅうてい (boat, revision, watercraft), しゅうせい (adjustment, aggregation, all one's life, alteration, amendment, lifelong, modification, retouching, revision, sound of the autumn wind, trait, update), きせい (ardour, completed, death, entreaty, established, existing, fervour, great master of go, homecoming, oath, parasite, parasitism, pledge, prayer, rare, ready-made, realization of an objective, regulation, returning home, spirit, strange voice, uncommon, vigour, vow), しっせい (administration, administrator, government, governor, misgovernment, point out errors, wet), なおし (repair), せい" (afterbirth, idiomatic expression, post-natal, set phrase). (various references) | |
Korean | 개 (Amendment, rectification, revision). (various references) | |
Manx | smaghtagh (afflicting, authoritarian, castigatory, disciplinarian, masterful, restraining, restrictive, subduer, tameable, victor), smaght (castigation, chastisement, command, control, discipline, empire, good order, restraint, restriction, subjection), lhiasaghey (amendment, appendix, appendix book, atone, atonement, compensate, compensation, correct, correct as text, cultivate, cultivation, culture, cure, curing, develop, developing, dress, dressing, dung, dunging, enrich, expiate, expiation, fertilize, fertilizer, furtherance, husband, husband as land, improvement, imputation, manure, manuring, propitiate, propitiation, reclaim, reclamation, recompense, repair, replenish, replenishment, restitution, revise, revision, rub up, season), kiartaghey (accommodate, accommodate arrange, adjust, adjusting, amend, correct, correct as mistake, even out, fix, make, modification, modify, preparation, prepare, qualify, ready, rectification, redress, setting, settle, settling, true), kerraghey (amerce, castigate, chasten, chastening, correct, correct as child, penalize, punish, punishing, punishment, victimize, visitation). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | orrectioncay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | correcção (amelioration, correction of error, correctness, patch), correcção, correção (accuracy, adjustment, converting, emendation, politeness, propriety, reclamation, rectification, redress, reform, reformation, respectability, revision, sportsmanship), valor de correcção (correction of error), retificação (adjustment, readjustment, rectification), rectificação (cross-linking, flatting, hone, rectification, shaving, transformation), punição (amercement, castigation, discipline, fine, flogging, pain, penalty, punishment, rod). (various references) | |
Romanian | corijare, corecturã (proof, reading, revise), corectare (castigation, improvement, rectification, redress), corecţie (castigation, correctness, hiding), rectificare (amendament, amendment, rectification, reduction), închisoare (cage, cooler, coop, gaol, hold, house of detention, imprisonment, jug, keep, pound, prison, station house). (various references) | |
Russian | коррекция. (various references) | |
Scottish | smachd (authority, command, control). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | popravka (amendment, emendation, improvement, mending, repair), korekcija, ispravljanje (rectification, revision). (various references) | |
Spanish | corrección (adjustment, amendment, corrigendum, decorum, editing, propriety), rectificación (amendment, rectification). (various references) | |
Swedish | rättning (alignment, rectification), korrektion (equalisation, equalization). (various references) | |
Turkish | cezalandırma (castigation, chastisement, punishment), ceza (criminal, fine, forfeit, imposition, infliction, pain, penal, penalty, punishment, punitive, recompense, retribution, sconce), tashih (revise, revision), doğrulama (affirmation, avowal, confirmation, corroboration, defence, defense, recognition, support, testification, verification), düzeltme (adjustment, amendment, correcting, emendation, improvement, melioration, proofreading, readjustment, recension, rectification, refinement, reformation, retouch, trimming). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | корекція, виправлення (amendment, betterment, castigation, emendation, reclaim, reclamation, rectification, redress, reform, reformation, reparation, retrieval), покарання (castigation, chastisement, judgement, judgment, mulct, payment, penalty, punishment), поправка (allowance, corrective, retouch). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | chỗ sửa nói khi biết rằng có thể có điều sai lầm, sự trừng trị (judgement, judgment), sự trừng giới cái đúng, sự sửa chữa (rectification, repair, reparation), sự sửa, sự hiệu chỉnh sự trừng phạt. (various references) | |
Welsh | cywiriad, cerydd (admonition, censure, chastisement, rebuke, reproof). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | correctio, correctionis, directione, directionem, directionis, litura. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 15, Verse 10 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Paideia akakou gnwrizetai upo twn pariontwn oi de misounteV elegcouV teleutwsin aiscrwV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Doctrina mala deserenti viam qui increpationes odit morietur |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Euel doctrine to the forsakende the weie of lif; who blamyngis hateth, shal dien. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Correction is grievous unto him that forsaketh the way: and he that hateth reproof shall die. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Correction is grievous to him that forsaketh the way: and he that hateth reproof shall die. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | There is bitter punishment for him who is turned from the way; and death will be the fate of the hater of teaching. |
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| Language | Proverbs Chapter 15, Verse 10 |
| Cebuano | ¶ Adunay mapait nga pagsaway alang niadtong mibulag sa dalan; Ug kadtong nagadumot sa pagbadlong mamatay man. |
| Croatian | Oštra kazna èeka onog tko ostavlja pravi put, a umrijet æe tko mrzi ukor. |
| Danish | Streng Tugt er for den, der forlader Vejen; den, der hader Revselse, dør. |
| Dutch | De tucht is onaangenaam voor dengene die het pad verlaat; en die de bestraffing haat, zal sterven. |
| Finnish | Kova tulee kuritus sille, joka tien hylkää; joka nuhdetta vihaa, saa kuoleman. |
| French | Une correction sévère menace celui qui abandonne le sentier; Celui qui hait la réprimande mourra. |
| German | Den Weg verlassen bringt böse Züchtigung, und wer Strafe haßt, der muß sterben. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Orang yang melakukan yang jahat akan disiksa; orang yang tak mau ditegur akan mati. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Tegur menjadi suatu kesakitan kepada orang yang meninggalkan jalan, tetapi orang yang benci akan pengajaran itu matilah kelak. |
| Italian | Punizione severa per chi abbandona il retto sentiero, chi odia la correzione morir . |
| Maori | ¶ He kino te papaki ki te tangata e whakarere ana i te ara; a, ko te tangata e kino ana ki te ako, ka mate. |
| Norwegian | Hård straff rammer den som forlater den rette sti; den som hater tilrettevisning, skal dø. |
| Portuguese | Há disciplina severa para o que abandona a vereda; e o que aborrece a repreensão morrerá. |
| Rumanian | Cine pqrqsewte cqrarea este aspru pedepsit, wi cine urqwte mustrarea va muri. - |
| Russian | ъМПЕ ОБЛБЪБОЙЕ--ХЛМПОСАЭЕНХУС ПФ ХФЙ, Й ОЕОБЧЙ"СЭЙК П'МЙЮЕОЙЕ ПЗЙ'ОЕФ. |
| Swedish | Svår tuktan drabbar den som övergiver vägen; den som hatar tillrättavisning, han måste dö. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "correction": correctional, corrections. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "correction": hypercorrection, overcorrection. (additional references) | |
Words containing "correction": hypercorrections, overcorrections. (additional references) | |
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"Correction" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Correcteur, correcton, correltion, corrotion. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "correction" (pronounced kere"kshun) |
| 6 | -er e" k sh u n | direction, insurrection, redirection, resurrection. |
| 5 | -e" k sh u n | advection, affection, circumspection, collection, complexion, confection, connection, convection, defection, detection, disaffection, disconnection, disinfection, dissection, ejection, election, erection, flexion, imperfection, infection, inflection, injection, inspection, interconnection, interjection, intersection, introspection, objection, overprotection, perfection, predilection, preelection, projection, protection, recollection, reelection, reflection, reinspection, rejection, section, selection. |
| 4 | -k sh u n | faction, fiction, abstraction, abduction, action, addiction, affliction, attraction, auction, benediction, compunction, concoction, conduction, conjunction, constriction, construction, contraction, contradiction, conviction, crucifixion, deconstruction, deduction, depiction, dereliction, destruction, diction, diffraction, dissatisfaction, distinction, distraction, dysfunction, eviction, exaction, extinction, extraction, fraction, friction, function, inaction, induction, infarction, infliction, infraction, injunction, instruction, interaction, interdiction, introduction, junction, jurisdiction, liposuction, liquefaction, malfunction, midsection, nonfiction, obstruction, overproduction, overreaction, prediction, production, reaction, reconstruction, reduction, reintroduction, reproduction, restriction, retraction, sanction, satisfaction, seduction, subsection, subtraction, suction, traction, transaction, transection. |
| 3 | -sh u n | facilitation, falsification, fascination, fashion, federation, fermentation, fertilization, fibrillation, figuration, filtration, fission, abrogation, absolution, absorption, academician, acceleration, accession, acclimation, accommodation, abbreviation, abdication, aberration, abolition, abomination, abortion, accreditation, accretion, accumulation, accusation, acidification, acquisition, activation, adaptation, addition, adjudication, administration, admiration, admission, admonition, adoption, adoration, adulation, advocation, affectation, affiliation, affirmation, agglomeration, aggravation, aggression, agitation, alienation, allegation, alleviation, alliteration, allocation, alphabetization, alteration, altercation, alternation, amalgamation, ambition, amelioration, ammunition, amortization, amplification, amputation, animation, annexation, annihilation, annotation, antiabortion, anticipation, anticorruption, antidiscrimination, apparition, appellation, application, apportion, appreciation, apprehension, approbation, appropriation, approximation, arbitration, argumentation, articulation, ascension, ashen, aspiration, assassination, assertion, assimilation, association, assumption, attention, attribution, attrition, audition, augmentation, authentication, authorization, automation, aviation, avocation, balkanization, beautician, bifurcation, brutalization, calculation, calibration, cancellation, cannibalization, capitalization, capitulation, caption, carburetion, carnation, castration, categorization, causation, caution, celebration, centralization, certification, cessation, cetacean, characterization, circulation, citation, civilization, clarification, classification, clinician, coagulation, coalition, codification, coercion, cogeneration, cogitation, cognition, cohabitation, collaboration, collectivization, colonization, coloration, colorization, combination, commemoration, commendation, commercialization, commission, commotion, communication, communization, compassion, compensation, competition, compilation, completion, complication, composition, comprehension, compression, compulsion, computation, computerization, concatenation, concentration, conception, conceptualization, concession, conciliation, concussion, condemnation, condensation, condescension, condition, confabulation, confederation, confession, configuration, confirmation, confiscation, conflagration, confrontation, conglomeration, congratulation, congregation, conjugation, conniption, connotation, conscription, consecration, conservation, consideration, consolation, consolidation, constellation, consternation, constipation, constitution, consultation, consummation, consumption, contamination, contemplation, contention, continuation, contortion, contraception, contraption, contribution, contrition, convention, conversation, convocation, convolution, convulsion, cooperation, coordination, coronation, corporation, correlation, corroboration, corruption, counterrevolution, creation, cremation, criminalization, crustacean, culmination, cultivation, cushion, dalmatian, damnation, decaffeination, decapitation, deceleration, decentralization, deception, decertification, decimation, declaration, decommission, decomposition, decompression, decontamination, decoration, decriminalization, dedication, defamation, definition, deflation, deforestation, deformation, degeneration, degradation, dehumanization, dehydration, deification, deinstitutionalization, delegation, deletion, deliberation, delineation, demarcation, demilitarization, demobilization, democratization, demodulation, demolition, demonization, demonstration, demoralization, demotion, denationalization, denomination, dentition, denuclearization, denunciation, depletion, depopulation, deportation, deposition, depravation, depreciation, depredation, depression, deprivation, deregulation, derivation, desalination, desalinization, description, desecration, desegregation, desertion, desiccation, designation, desolation, desperation, destabilization, destination, destitution, detention, deterioration, determination, detonation, detoxication, detoxification, devaluation, devastation, deviation, devolution, devotion, dictation, dietitian, differentiation, digression, dilatation, dilation, dilution, dimension, diminution, discoloration, discontinuation, discretion, discrimination, discussion, disembarkation, disinclination, disinflation, disinformation, disintegration, dislocation, disorganization, disorientation, dispensation, disposition, disputation, disqualification, disruption, dissemination, dissension, dissertation, dissipation, dissociation, dissolution, distillation, distortion, distribution, diversification, divination, documentation, domestication, domination, donation, dramatization, duplication, duration, echolocation, edification, edition, education, egyptian, ejaculation, elaboration, elation, electrician, electrification, electrocution, elevation, elimination, elocution, elongation, emanation, emancipation, embarkation, emigration, emission, emotion, emulation, emulsion, encryption, enumeration, equalization, equitation, equivocation, eradication, erudition, eruption, escalation, estimation, evacuation, evaluation, evaporation, evocation, evolution, exacerbation, exaggeration, examination, exasperation, excavation, exception, excitation, exclamation, excommunication, excoriation, excretion, execution, exemption, exertion, exfoliation, exhalation, exhibition, exhilaration, exhortation, exhumation, exoneration, expansion, expatriation, expectation, expedition, experimentation, expiration, explanation, explication, exploitation, exploration, exposition, expression, expropriation, expulsion, extension, extermination, extortion, extradition, extrapolation, fabrication, fixation, flirtation, flotation, fluctuation, fluoridation, foliation, formalization, formation, formulation, fortification, foundation, fragmentation, freshen, fruition, frustration, fumigation, gasification, gastrulation, generalization, generation, gentian, gentrification, geriatrician, germination, gestation, glaciation, globalization, glorification, gradation, graduation, granulation, gratification, gravitation, gumption, gyration, habitation, hallucination, harmonization, hesitation, hessian, hibernation, homogenization, hospitalization, humiliation, hybridization, hydration, hydrogenation, hyperinflation, hypertension, hypotension, identification, ignition, illumination, illustration, imagination, imitation, immigration, immunization, impassion, impersonation, implantation, implementation, implication, importation, imposition, impregnation, impression, improvisation, imputation, inactivation, inauguration, incantation, incapacitation, incarceration, incarnation, inception, incineration, inclination, incoordination, incorporation, incrimination, incrustation, incubation, indemnification, indentation, indexation, indication, indignation, indiscretion, indoctrination, industrialization, infatuation, infestation, infiltration, inflammation, inflation, information, inhabitation, inhalation, inhibition, initiation, innovation, inoculation, inquisition, inscription, insemination, insertion, insinuation, inspiration, installation, instigation, institution, institutionalization, instrumentation, insubordination, insulation, integration, intensification, interception, intercession, intermission, internationalization, interpretation, interrogation, interruption, intimation, intimidation, intonation, intoxication, intuition, inundation, invalidation, invention, investigation, invitation, invocation, ionization, irradiation, irrigation, irritation, isolation, jubilation, justification, juxtaposition, laceration, lactation, legalization, legislation, levitation, liberalization, liberation, libration, ligation, lilliputian, limitation, liquidation, litigation, localization, location, locomotion, logician, lotion, lubrication, machination, magician, magnetization, magnification, malformation, malnutrition, manifestation, manipulation, mansion, marginalization, martian, masturbation, mathematician, maturation, maximization, mechanization, mediation, medication, meditation, menstruation, mention, migration, mineralization, miniaturization, ministration, misallocation, misapplication, misapprehension, misappropriation, miscalculation, mischaracterization, miscommunication, misconception, miscreation, misidentification, misimpression, misinformation, misinterpretation, misperception, misrepresentation, mission, mitigation, mobilization, moderation, modernization, modification, modulation, molestation, monopolization, mortician, motion, motivation, multiplication, mummification, munition, musician, mutation, mutilation, narration, nation, nationalization, naturalization, navigation, negation, negotiation, neutralization, nitration, nomination, nonaggression, nondiscrimination, nonprescription, nonproliferation, normalization, notation, notification, notion, nucleation, nullification, nutrition, obfuscation, obligation, observation, obsession, obstetrician, occupation, ocean, omission, operation, opposition, oppression, optician, optimization, option, oration, orchestration, ordination, organisation, organization, orientation, origination, ornamentation, oscillation, ossification, ostentation, ovation, overconsumption, overexpansion, overpopulation, overregulation, oversimplification, overvaluation, ovulation, oxidation, pacification, pagination, palpitation, participation, partition, passion, pasteurization, patrician, pediatrician, penetration, pension, perception, percussion, perforation, permission, permutation, perpetuation, persecution, personalization, personification, perspiration, perturbation, petition, physician, pigmentation, plantation, polarization, politician, politicization, pollination, pollution, pontification, popularization, population, portion, position, possession, potion, precaution, precession, precipitation, preconception, precondition, predestination, predisposition, preemption, prefabrication, preignition, premeditation, premonition, preoccupation, preparation, prescription, presentation, preservation, pressurization, presumption, presupposition, pretension, prevention, privation, privatization, probation, procession, proclamation, procrastination, procreation, profanation, profession, prognostication, progression, prohibition, proliferation, promotion, pronunciation, propagation, proportion, proposition, propulsion, proration, proscription, prosecution, prostitution, prostration, protestation, provocation, publication, punctuation, purification, qualification, quantification, quotation, radiation, radicalization, ramification, ratification, ration, rationalization, reaffirmation, realization, reallocation, reassertion, reauthorization, recalculation, recantation, recapitalization, reception, recertification, recession, recitation, reclamation, reclassification, recognition, recommendation, reconciliation, recondition, reconfiguration, reconfirmation, reconsideration, recreation, recrimination, rectification, recuperation, redecoration, rededication, redefinition, redemption, redistribution, reeducation, reevaluation, reexamination, reflation, reforestation, reformation, refrigeration, refutation, regeneration, regimentation, registration, regression, regulation, rehabilitation, rehydration, reimposition, reincarnation, reincorporation, reintegration, reinterpretation, reinvention, reinvigoration, reiteration, rejuvenation, relation, relaxation, relocation, remediation, remission, remuneration, renationalization, rendition, renegotiation, renomination, renovation, renunciation, reorganization, reparation, repatriation, repercussion, repetition, replication, reposition, repossession, representation, repression, repudiation, reputation, requisition, reregulation, reservation, resignation, resolution, respiration, restitution, restoration, resumption, resuscitation, retaliation, retardation, retention, retransmission, retribution, reunification, revaluation, revelation, reverberation, revitalization, revocation, revolution, revulsion, rhetorician, rotation, rumination, salvation, sanctification, sanitation, saponification, saturation, secession, secretion, securitization, sedation, sedimentation, sedition, segmentation, segregation, sensation, separation, sequestration, session, simplification, simulation, situation, socialization, solicitation, solution, sophistication, specialization, specification, speculation, stabilization, stagflation, stagnation, standardization, starvation, station, statistician, sterilization, stimulation, stipulation, strangulation, subluxation, submission, subordination, subscription, subsidization, substantiation, substation, substitution, suburbanization, succession, suffocation, summation, superstation, superstition, supposition, suppression, suspension, suspicion, syncopation, syndication, tabulation, tactician, taxation, technician, telecommunication, temptation, tension, termination, theoretician, titian, titillation, toleration, tradition, transcription, transformation, transgression, transillumination, transition, translation, transmission, transplantation, transportation, trepidation, triangulation, tribulation, tuition, undervaluation, unification, unionization, urbanization, usurpation, utilization, vacation, vaccination, vacillation, validation, valuation, vaporization, variation, vegetation, venetian, ventilation, verification, vibration, victimization, vilification, vindication, violation, visitation, visualization, vocation, volition, vulgarization, westernization, workstation. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-e-i-n-o-o-r-r-t" | |
-1 letter: incorrect. | |
-2 letters: coercion, concerti, concerto, crocoite, necrotic, tricorne. | |
-3 letters: centric, cerotic, cointer, conceit, concert, coontie, cornice, cornier, coroner, coronet, correct, crocein, crocine, crooner, noticer, orectic, rootier, tricorn. | |
