coalition

\kɔ.a.li.sjɔ̃\

/\kɔ.a.li.sjɔ̃\/ noun

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The verdict

“coalition” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,735. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#4,735
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
5
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Union ou réunion de différents partis, ligue de plusieurs puissances.

Corpus desk

Index FR-coalition · coalition · French

coalition · rank #4,735 · 12 variants · 5 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #4,735
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH centaine

Nearest frequency peer: centaine (-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 « coalition »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « coalition » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

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).

coalition vs condition
78% similar
coalition vs collision
78% similar
coalition vs collation
78% similar

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

Key facts for coalition
PropertyValue
Headwordcoalition
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kɔ.a.li.sjɔ̃\
Letters9
Frequency rank#4,735
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « coalition »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).coalitionse place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « centaine » (#4,734), « collections » (#4,736), « bol » (#4,733). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « coalition » est au #4,735. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around coalition (IPA \kɔ.a.li.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,735 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for coalition, with forms such as "caolition", "ccoalition", and "coailtion". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "condition", "collision", "collation", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is coalition, spelled C-O-A-L-I-T-I-O-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Union ou réunion de différents partis, ligue de plusieurs puissances.
  2. 2
    Union au niveau parlementaire de différents partis ou de différents groupes.
  3. 3
    Ensemble de forces qui s'unissent contre un adversaire commun.
  4. 4
    Union concertée entre ouvriers, patrons, industriels, commerçants, etc., en vue de modifier ou de maintenir certaines conditions de travail ou d’échange.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Si la France n’est pas habituée aux alliances gouvernementales, en Europe, une majorité de pays sont gouvernés par des coalitions.
  2. Ce fut le rôle historique de Charles de Gaulle, qui avait déjà, de façon assez analogue, rendu acceptable à la bourgeoisie française l’entrée dans la coalition anti-hitlérienne aux côtés de Staline et des communistes français.

This word in other languages

coalition(English)coalición(Español)Koalition(Deutsch)coalizão(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • caolition
  • ccoalition
  • coailtion
  • coaliiton
  • coalitino
  • coalitionn
  • coalitoin
  • coalittion
  • coallition
  • coaltiion
  • colaition
  • ocalition

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

caolition2ccoalition1coailtion2coaliiton2coalitino2coalitionn1coalitoin2coalittion1
Edit distance from "coalition"

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 "coalition"?
"coalition" is spelled C-O-A-L-I-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ.a.li.sjɔ̃\.
What does "coalition" mean?
As a noun, "coalition" means: Union ou réunion de différents partis, ligue de plusieurs puissances.
What words are commonly confused with "coalition"?
"coalition" is commonly confused with "condition", "collision", "collation". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "coalition"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "coalition" is \kɔ.a.li.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "coalition" come from?
"coalition" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

contacter#4,740démontrer#4,752stabilité#4,717espagnole#4,754

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

connaissais12 variantsesclaves12 variantsrivières12 variantsmanquent12 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list