confessions
\kɔ̃.fe.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“confessions” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,228. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,228
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de confession.
Corpus desk
Index FR-confessions · confessions · French
confessions · rank #14,228 · 15 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,228
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH concilier
Nearest frequency peer: concilier (-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 « confessions »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Colette
Colette
85,776 corpus weight
- concentrée
concentrée
85,775 corpus weight
- concilier
concilier
85,774 corpus weight
- confessions
confessions
85,773 corpus weight
- constituait
constituait
85,771 corpus weight
- consécration
consécration
85,770 corpus weight
What this shows « confessions » 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 | confessions |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.fe.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #14,228 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « confessions »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around confessions (IPA \kɔ̃.fe.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,228 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de confession.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for confessions, with forms such as "cconfessions", "cnofessions", and "cofnessions". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "confusions", "conversions", "concession", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is confessions, spelled C-O-N-F-E-S-S-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de confession.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how confessions appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La fameuse vidéo de Penelope Fillon interviewée par le « Sunday Telegraph », dans laquelle l’imprudente confirmait, en mai 2007, sa condition de femme au foyer, recelait d’autres confessions gaguesques.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cconfessions
- cnofessions
- cofnessions
- conefssions
- confesions
- confesisons
- confessinos
- confessionns
- confessionss
- confessiosn
- confessoins
- conffessions
- confsesions
- connfessions
- ocnfessions
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of confessions - 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 (15 here; floor ≥5).