approbation
\a.pʁɔ.ba.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“approbation” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,146. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,146
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Agrément qu’on donne à quelque chose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-approbation · approbation · French
approbation · rank #7,146 · 14 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,146
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH appartenance
Nearest frequency peer: appartenance (-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 « approbation »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- animale
animale
92,858 corpus weight
- Ann
Ann
92,857 corpus weight
- appartenance
appartenance
92,856 corpus weight
- approbation
approbation
92,855 corpus weight
- associer
associer
92,854 corpus weight
- augustin
augustin
92,853 corpus weight
What this shows « approbation » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | approbation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.pʁɔ.ba.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #7,146 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « approbation »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around approbation (IPA \a.pʁɔ.ba.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,146 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for approbation, with forms such as "apporbation", "apprboation", and "approabtion". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is approbation, spelled A-P-P-R-O-B-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Agrément qu’on donne à quelque chose.
- 2Jugement favorable qu’on porte de quelqu’un, de quelque chose.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how approbation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vous recherchez moins mon avis sur le parti que vous avez à prendre que mon approbation pour celui que vous avez pris.
Cette décision est confirmée par Clotaire II. Malgré l'approbation royale, elle ne fut sans doute pas rigoureusement appliquée, car le concile de Reims (615) dut la renouveler.
Synonyms
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This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apporbation
- apprboation
- approabtion
- approbaiton
- approbatino
- approbationn
- approbatoin
- approbattion
- approbbation
- approbtaion
- apprrobation
- aprobation
- aprpobation
- paprobation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of approbation - 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
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).