consultation
\kɔ̃.syl.ta.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“consultation” has 18 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,657. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,657
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Conférence que l’on tient pour consulter sur quelque affaire ou sur une maladie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-consultation · consultation · French
consultation · rank #4,657 · 18 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,657
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH conquête
Nearest frequency peer: conquête (-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 « consultation »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- clientèle
clientèle
95,347 corpus weight
- conclu
conclu
95,346 corpus weight
- conquête
conquête
95,345 corpus weight
- consultation
consultation
95,344 corpus weight
- costume
costume
95,343 corpus weight
- crâne
crâne
95,342 corpus weight
What this shows « consultation » 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 | consultation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.syl.ta.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #4,657 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « consultation »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around consultation (IPA \kɔ̃.syl.ta.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,657 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for consultation, with forms such as "cconsultation", "cnosultation", and "connsultation". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "consultative", "consultations", "consultatif", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is consultation, spelled C-O-N-S-U-L-T-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Conférence que l’on tient pour consulter sur quelque affaire ou sur une maladie.
- 2Sondage, vote ou référendum.
- 3Avis verbal ou écrit que les avocats ou les médecins donnent touchant l’affaire, touchant la maladie sur laquelle on les consulte.
- 4Lieu et heure auxquels un médecin reçoit les malades.
- 5Procédure engagée par un client visant à recueillir des offres pour un marché ouvert à la concurrence ; appel d’offres.
- 6Le fait de lire un document.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how consultation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le succès de l’haruspicine ne se limitait pas à la religion officielle. Une foule d’haruspices privés proposait ses consultations au public moyennant finance : dans la Carthage du IVᵉ siècle apr. J.-C., le futur saint Augustin, alors étudiant, y eut encore recours.
L'éloge des nouvelles liaisons nodales, qu'entonnent imperturbablement Deleuze et Guattari, mettait des mots-clés à disposition de l’innovationnisme d'une industrie de la consultation agissant à l'échelle mondiale, mots qui tournent depuis autour de notions creuses comme « créativité », « invention », « excellence » et « incentive ».
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cconsultation
- cnosultation
- connsultation
- conslutation
- conssultation
- consulattion
- consulltation
- consultaiton
- consultatino
- consultationn
- consultatoin
- consultattion
- consulttaion
- consulttation
- consutlation
- conusltation
- cosnultation
- ocnsultation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of consultation - 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 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).