accusation
\a.ky.za.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“accusation” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,638. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,638
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action en justice par laquelle on accuse quelqu’un.
Corpus desk
Index FR-accusation · accusation · French
accusation · rank #4,638 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-COMMON #4,638
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH abonnement
Nearest frequency peer: abonnement (-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 « accusation »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Xavier
Xavier
95,366 corpus weight
- épargne
épargne
95,365 corpus weight
- abonnement
abonnement
95,364 corpus weight
- accusation
accusation
95,363 corpus weight
- aimait
aimait
95,361 corpus weight
- ampleur
ampleur
95,360 corpus weight
What this shows « accusation » 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 | accusation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ky.za.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #4,638 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « accusation »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around accusation (IPA \a.ky.za.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,638 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for accusation, with forms such as "accsuation", "accuastion", and "accusaiton". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "accusations", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is accusation, spelled A-C-C-U-S-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action en justice par laquelle on accuse quelqu’un.
- 2Tout reproche, de toute imputation qu’on fait à une personne de quelque faute, de quelque défaut que ce soit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how accusation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vers 1255, le bailli de Pont-Audemer, nommé Jean de Neuvy, était sous le poids des plus graves accusations, et parmi les nombreux méfaits qui lui étaient reprochés se trouvait l’impunité d'un assassinat commis sur un homme de Bourneville.
Une accusation de complot contre la vie de Napoléon III fut abandonnée par prudence ; l’idée était dans l’air, on craignait d’évoquer l’événement.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- accsuation
- accuastion
- accusaiton
- accusatino
- accusationn
- accusatoin
- accusattion
- accussation
- accustaion
- acucsation
- acusation
- cacusation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of accusation - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
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Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).