accentuation
\ak.sɑ̃.tɥa.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“accentuation” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,620. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,620
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’accentuer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-accentuation · accentuation · French
accentuation · rank #39,620 · 15 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #39,620
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH accentuent
Nearest frequency peer: accentuent (+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 « accentuation »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- abats
abats
60,383 corpus weight
- accentuation
accentuation
60,381 corpus weight
- accentuent
accentuent
60,380 corpus weight
- acceptaient
acceptaient
60,379 corpus weight
- accommode
accommode
60,378 corpus weight
- achetais
achetais
60,377 corpus weight
What this shows « accentuation » 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 | accentuation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ak.sɑ̃.tɥa.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #39,620 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « accentuation »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around accentuation (IPA \ak.sɑ̃.tɥa.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #39,620 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Action d’accentuer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for accentuation, with forms such as "accenntuation", "accentaution", and "accenttuation". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "acceptation", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is accentuation, spelled A-C-C-E-N-T-U-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action d’accentuer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how accentuation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les règles de l’accentuation française.
Les règles de l’accentuation grecque.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- accenntuation
- accentaution
- accenttuation
- accentuaiton
- accentuatino
- accentuationn
- accentuatoin
- accentuattion
- accentutaion
- accenutation
- accetnuation
- accnetuation
- acecntuation
- acentuation
- cacentuation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of accentuation - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).