confrontation
\kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.ta.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“confrontation” has 20 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,221. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,221
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 20
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de confronter des personnes ou des choses.
Corpus desk
Index FR-confrontation · confrontation · French
confrontation · rank #8,221 · 20 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-COMMON #8,221
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 20 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH comtesse
Nearest frequency peer: comtesse (-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 « confrontation »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- comptoir
comptoir
91,782 corpus weight
- comtesse
comtesse
91,781 corpus weight
- confrontati…
confrontation
91,780 corpus weight
- cousins
cousins
91,779 corpus weight
- crains
crains
91,778 corpus weight
- croisière
croisière
91,777 corpus weight
What this shows « confrontation » 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 | confrontation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.ta.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #8,221 |
| Misspellings tracked | 20 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « confrontation »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 20 spelling variants around confrontation (IPA \kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.ta.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,221 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Action de confronter des personnes ou des choses.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 20 likely wrong-spelling variants for confrontation, with forms such as "cconfrontation", "cnofrontation", and "cofnrontation". 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, "confrontations", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 confrontation, spelled C-O-N-F-R-O-N-T-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action de confronter des personnes ou des choses.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how confrontation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pas encore, répondit Camuso; mais demain, après votre confrontation avec Jacques Collin, vous serez sans doute libre.
Le Beaujolais, qui a connu après la Seconde Guerre mondiale à la fois un enrésinement massif et une extension viticole grâce au succès du Beaujolais nouveau, offre un terrain particulièrement riche pour étudier la confrontation, voire le conflit entre la vigne et la forêt résineuse.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cconfrontation
- cnofrontation
- cofnrontation
- conffrontation
- conforntation
- confrnotation
- confronattion
- confronntation
- confrontaiton
- confrontatino
- confrontationn
- confrontatoin
- confrontattion
- confronttaion
- confronttation
- confrotnation
- confrrontation
- connfrontation
- conrfontation
- ocnfrontation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of confrontation - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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).