complications
\kɔ̃.pli.ka.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“complications” has 20 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,845. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,845
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 20
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de complication.
Corpus desk
Index FR-complications · complications · French
complications · rank #10,845 · 20 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,845
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 20 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH combustion
Nearest frequency peer: combustion (-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 « complications »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- close
close
89,159 corpus weight
- combustion
combustion
89,157 corpus weight
- complicatio…
complications
89,156 corpus weight
- compliment
compliment
89,155 corpus weight
- continuant
continuant
89,154 corpus weight
- continues
continues
89,153 corpus weight
What this shows « complications » 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 | complications |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.pli.ka.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #10,845 |
| Misspellings tracked | 20 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « complications »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 20 spelling variants around complications (IPA \kɔ̃.pli.ka.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,845 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de complication.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 20 likely wrong-spelling variants for complications, with forms such as "ccomplications", "cmoplications", and "comlpications". 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, "complication", "compilations", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is complications, spelled C-O-M-P-L-I-C-A-T-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de complication.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how complications appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Or, ici, commence un procès aux complications inénarrables, et qui dura dix ans.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccomplications
- cmoplications
- comlpications
- commplications
- compilcations
- complciations
- compliactions
- complicaitons
- complicatinos
- complicationns
- complicationss
- complicatiosn
- complicatoins
- complicattions
- compliccations
- complictaions
- compllications
- compplications
- copmlications
- ocmplications
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of complications - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (20 here; floor ≥5).