canonisation
\ka.nɔ.ni.za.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“canonisation” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #31,870. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,870
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Acte officiel par lequel le Pape inscrit le récipiendaire sur le catalogue des saints, autorisant sa vénération.
Corpus desk
Index FR-canonisation · canonisation · French
canonisation · rank #31,870 · 17 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,870
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH caméraman
Nearest frequency peer: caméraman (-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 « canonisation »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- bénédicte
bénédicte
68,134 corpus weight
- caméraman
caméraman
68,132 corpus weight
- canonisation
canonisation
68,131 corpus weight
- capricieuse
capricieuse
68,130 corpus weight
- caractérisé…
caractérisées
68,129 corpus weight
- carcasses
carcasses
68,128 corpus weight
What this shows « canonisation » 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 | canonisation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.nɔ.ni.za.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #31,870 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « canonisation »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around canonisation (IPA \ka.nɔ.ni.za.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #31,870 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Acte officiel par lequel le Pape inscrit le récipiendaire sur le catalogue des saints, autorisant sa vénération.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for canonisation, with forms such as "acnonisation", "cannoisation", and "cannonisation". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "colonisation", "canalisation", 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 its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is canonisation, spelled C-A-N-O-N-I-S-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Acte officiel par lequel le Pape inscrit le récipiendaire sur le catalogue des saints, autorisant sa vénération.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how canonisation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Peut-on considérer comme des fous théomanes tant de saints personnages qui depuis Jésus-Christ ont ressuscité des morts? Tous ces miracles consignés dans les procédures de canonisation, quel nom faut-il donc leur donner? Comment l'Église s'est-elle donc si lourdement trompée ?
Après la canonisation de Clodoald, 130 ans plus tard, Novigentum sera rebaptisé Sanctus Clodoaldus en l’honneur de son fondateur.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acnonisation
- cannoisation
- cannonisation
- canoinsation
- canoniastion
- canonisaiton
- canonisatino
- canonisationn
- canonisatoin
- canonisattion
- canonissation
- canonistaion
- canonnisation
- canonsiation
- caonnisation
- ccanonisation
- cnaonisation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of canonisation - 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 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).