correctionnel
\kɔ.ʁɛk.sjɔ.nɛl\
The verdict
“correctionnel” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,395. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,395
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a rapport à la correction des actes qualifiés de délits par la loi.
Corpus desk
Index FR-correctionnel · correctionnel · French
correctionnel · rank #17,395 · 16 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,395
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cop
Nearest frequency peer: cop (-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 « correctionnel »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- conteneurs
conteneurs
82,609 corpus weight
- cop
cop
82,607 corpus weight
- correctionn…
correctionnel
82,606 corpus weight
- corresponda…
correspondait
82,605 corpus weight
- cortex
cortex
82,604 corpus weight
- couchée
couchée
82,603 corpus weight
What this shows « correctionnel » 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 | correctionnel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ.ʁɛk.sjɔ.nɛl\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #17,395 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « correctionnel »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around correctionnel (IPA \kɔ.ʁɛk.sjɔ.nɛl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #17,395 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui a rapport à la correction des actes qualifiés de délits par la loi.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for correctionnel, with forms such as "ccorrectionnel", "corectionnel", and "corerctionnel". 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, "correctionnels", "correctionnelle", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 correctionnel, spelled C-O-R-R-E-C-T-I-O-N-N-E-L.
Definition
- 1Qui a rapport à la correction des actes qualifiés de délits par la loi.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how correctionnel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Peine correctionnelle. - Délit correctionnel. - Tribunal de police correctionnelle. - Juridiction correctionnelle.
Il avait débuté par des portraits de financiers, un ramassis d’ignobles commérages, sans contrôle, sans preuves, qui auraient dû le conduire en police correctionnelle, et qui, réunis en volume, ont eu l’étourdissant succès que vous savez.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccorrectionnel
- corectionnel
- corerctionnel
- corrcetionnel
- correcctionnel
- correcitonnel
- correctinonel
- correctionel
- correctionenl
- correctionnell
- correctionnle
- correctoinnel
- correcttionnel
- corretcionnel
- crorectionnel
- ocrrectionnel
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of correctionnel - 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 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).