confinement

Name: confinement, French Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

\kɔ̃.fin.mɑ̃\

/\kɔ̃.fin.mɑ̃\/ noun

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“confinement” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,388. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#17,388
frequency rank, French: 8,609
“C” headwords: 17
tracked misspellings: 1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de confiner quelque chose ou quelqu’un ; résultat de cette action.

Corpus desk

Index FR-confinement · confinement · French

confinement · rank #17,388 · 17 variants · 1 confusable

FREQ-MID #17,388
LEN-MEGA 11 letters
VOW-4 4 vowels
CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
VAR-HIGH 17 variants
BOOK-DENSE 8,609
PHOTO-FINISH concrétiser

Nearest frequency peer: concrétiser (-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.

comptais

82,616
concentrent

82,615
concrétiser

82,614
confinement

82,613
conjoints

82,612
conjugaison

82,611

What this shows « confinement » 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).

confinement vs confirment

82% similar

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

Key facts for confinement
Property	Value
Headword	confinement
Language	French
Part of speech	Noun
IPA	\kɔ̃.fin.mɑ̃\
Letters	11
Frequency rank	#17,388
Misspellings tracked	17
Confusable pairs	1
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « confinement »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.confinementse place ici:

#17,388

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « concrétiser » (#17,387), « conjoints » (#17,389), « concentrent » (#17,386). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « confinement » est au #17,388. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 17 spelling variants around confinement (IPA \kɔ̃.fin.mɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,388 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for confinement, with forms such as "cconfinement", "cnofinement", and "cofninement". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "confirment", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is confinement, spelled C-O-N-F-I-N-E-M-E-N-T.

Definition

1
Action de confiner quelque chose ou quelqu’un ; résultat de cette action.
2
Procédure de sécurité visant à protéger des personnes dans des espaces clos afin d’éviter, un contact avec un nuage nocif (de gaz ou radioactif), ou la propagation d’une maladie infectieuse.
3
(Absolument, avec l’article défini : le confinement) (2020) Confinement à domicile, plus ou moins sévère selon les sous-périodes, imposé par la plupart des États du monde à partir de mars 2020 dans la lutte contre la COVID-19.
4
Maintien de matières radioactives à l’intérieur d’un espace déterminé grâce à un ensemble de dispositions visant à empêcher leur dispersion en quantités inacceptables au-delà de cet espace.
5
Ensemble des dispositions prises pour assurer ce maintien.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

Tout condamné aux travaux forcés à perpétuité subira un confinement solitaire d’un mois à son entrée dans la maison de force, et de quinze jours tous les ans, à l’époque que déterminera le conseil d’administration de la prison.
Le défaut d’exercice, le confinement dans une atmosphère très-limitée, sont des causes d’affaiblissement de l’organisme, et par suite des causes prédisposantes de la tuberculose.

Antonyms

déconfinement

This word in other languages

confinement(English)confinamiento(Español)Quarantäne(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

cconfinement
cnofinement
cofninement
conffinement
confienment
confineemnt
confinemennt
confinementt
confinemetn
confinemment
confinemnet
confinmeent
confinnement
confniement
conifnement
connfinement
ocnfinement

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of confinement - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

Edit distance from "confinement"

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 "confinement"?

"confinement" is spelled C-O-N-F-I-N-E-M-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ̃.fin.mɑ̃\.

What does "confinement" mean?

As a noun, "confinement" means: Action de confiner quelque chose ou quelqu’un ; résultat de cette action.

What words are commonly confused with "confinement"?

"confinement" is commonly confused with "confirment". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.

How do you pronounce "confinement"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "confinement" is \kɔ̃.fin.mɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "confinement" come from?

"confinement" 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 "confinement", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

concrétiser#17,387 concentrent#17,386 conjugaison#17,390 consolation#17,391

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).

clandestine17 variants délégations17 variants attractivité17 variants grandissante17 variants