décapitation
\de.ka.pi.ta.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“décapitation” has 18 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,137. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,137
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de décapiter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-decapitation · décapitation · French
décapitation · rank #28,137 · 18 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,137
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dynamiser
Nearest frequency peer: dynamiser (-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 « décapitation »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Dumoulin
Dumoulin
71,867 corpus weight
- durcir
durcir
71,866 corpus weight
- dynamiser
dynamiser
71,865 corpus weight
- décapitation
décapitation
71,864 corpus weight
- décréter
décréter
71,863 corpus weight
- déformations
déformations
71,862 corpus weight
What this shows « décapitation » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | décapitation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.ka.pi.ta.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #28,137 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « décapitation »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around décapitation (IPA \de.ka.pi.ta.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #28,137 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Action de décapiter.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for décapitation, with forms such as "dcéapitation", "ddécapitation", and "decapitation". 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. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is décapitation, spelled D-É-C-A-P-I-T-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action de décapiter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how décapitation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le crapaud a la vie très dure. Il survit plusieurs heures à la décapitation, plusieurs jours à l'avulsion du cœur, quarante jours à l'ablation des poumons, plusieurs semaines à l'amputation du museau en arrière des yeux.
En Arabie saoudite, l'apostasie est passible de la peine de mort par décapitation au sabre.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- dcéapitation
- ddécapitation
- decapitation
- déacpitation
- décaiptation
- décapiattion
- décapitaiton
- décapitatino
- décapitationn
- décapitatoin
- décapitattion
- décapittaion
- décapittation
- décappitation
- décaptiation
- déccapitation
- décpaitation
- édcapitation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of décapitation - 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).
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