administration

\ad.mi.nis.tʁa.sjɔ̃\

/\ad.mi.nis.tʁa.sjɔ̃\/ noun

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The verdict

“administration” has 21 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #816. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#816
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
21
tracked misspellings
4
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’administrer ; direction ou conduite des affaires publiques ou particulières.

Corpus desk

Index FR-administration · administration · French

administration · rank #816 · 21 variants · 4 confusables

  • FREQ-CORE #816
  • LEN-MEGA 14 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 21 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH suivre

Nearest frequency peer: suivre (-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.

Frequency neighbourhood for “administration”

Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)

corpus weight

What this shows Bars show where “administration” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

administration vs administrative
86% similar
administration vs administrations
93% similar
administration vs administratif
86% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for administration
PropertyValue
Headwordadministration
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ad.mi.nis.tʁa.sjɔ̃\
Letters14
Frequency rank#816
Misspellings tracked21
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Où “administration” se place dans la fréquence du français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.administrationse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « suivre » (#815), « auprès » (#817), « répondre » (#814). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 21 spelling variants around administration (IPA \ad.mi.nis.tʁa.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #816 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 7 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 21 likely wrong-spelling variants for administration, with forms such as "addministration", "adimnistration", and "admiinstration". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "administrative", "administrations", "administratif", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 administration, spelled A-D-M-I-N-I-S-T-R-A-T-I-O-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action d’administrer ; direction ou conduite des affaires publiques ou particulières.
  2. 2
    Période de cette direction des affaires.
  3. 3
    Corps des fonctionnaires chargés collectivement de quelque partie de l’administration publique.
  4. 4
    Corps des fonctionnaires chargés collectivement de quelque partie de l’administration publique.
  5. 5
    Corps des fonctionnaires chargés collectivement de quelque partie de l’administration publique.
  6. 6
    Gouvernement américain.
  7. 7
    Action d’administrer, de fournir une chose à une autre.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how administration appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Il me semble que l’administration d’un grand peuple peut être comparée à une chaîne immense. Si chacun des anneaux n’est pas proportionné au poids qu’il supporte, la chaîne se brise…
  2. Mais New York ne copiait aucun peuple pour le désordre et le gâchis de son administration intérieure, un désarroi, grâce auquel des quartiers entiers échappaient à toute loi, devenaient impénétrables aussitôt que des batailles et des tueries de rue à rue y éclataient.

Synonyms

gestion

This word in other languages

administration(English)administración(Español)Verwaltung(Deutsch)administrar(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • addministration
  • adimnistration
  • admiinstration
  • adminisrtation
  • adminisstration
  • administartion
  • administraiton
  • administratino
  • administrationn
  • administratoin
  • administrattion
  • administrration
  • administrtaion
  • administtration
  • adminitsration
  • adminnistration
  • adminsitration
  • admministration
  • admniistration
  • amdinistration
  • daministration

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of administration - 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.

addministration1adimnistration2admiinstration2adminisrtation2adminisstration1administartion2administraiton2administratino2
Edit distance from "administration"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "administration"?
"administration" is spelled A-D-M-I-N-I-S-T-R-A-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \ad.mi.nis.tʁa.sjɔ̃\.
What does "administration" mean?
As a noun, "administration" means: Action d’administrer ; direction ou conduite des affaires publiques ou particulières.
What words are commonly confused with "administration"?
"administration" is commonly confused with "administrative", "administrations", "administratif". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "administration"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "administration" is \ad.mi.nis.tʁa.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "administration" come from?
"administration" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "administration", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 14 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

internationale#1,140responsabilité#1,456principalement#1,672présidentielle#2,096

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (21 here; floor ≥5).

établissements21 variantscirconstances21 variantsmanifestations21 variantsadministrative21 variants

What to do next

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  • "administration" maps to 4 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "administrative". View pair
  • 21 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
  • Usage frequency rank #816 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
  • Browse more French words in the "A" letter cohort. A–Z browse

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Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list