altérations
\al.te.ʁa.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“altérations” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,699. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,699
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de altération.
Corpus desk
Index FR-alterations · altérations · French
altérations · rank #36,699 · 17 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,699
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH allumées
Nearest frequency peer: allumées (-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 « altérations »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- alcoolisé
alcoolisé
63,305 corpus weight
- aliénés
aliénés
63,304 corpus weight
- allumées
allumées
63,303 corpus weight
- altérations
altérations
63,302 corpus weight
- amputer
amputer
63,301 corpus weight
- anglet
anglet
63,300 corpus weight
What this shows « altérations » 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 | altérations |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \al.te.ʁa.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #36,699 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « altérations »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around altérations (IPA \al.te.ʁa.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #36,699 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de altération.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for altérations, with forms such as "alltérations", "alterations", and "altréations". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "altercation", "altération", "allégations", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is altérations, spelled A-L-T-É-R-A-T-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de altération.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- alltérations
- alterations
- altréations
- alttérations
- altéartions
- altéraitons
- altératinos
- altérationns
- altérationss
- altératiosn
- altératoins
- altérattions
- altérrations
- altértaions
- alétrations
- atlérations
- latérations
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of altérations - 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 "altérations", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).