délimitation
\de.li.mi.ta.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“délimitation” has 18 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,185. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,185
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de délimiter ou résultat de cette action.
Corpus desk
Index FR-delimitation · délimitation · French
délimitation · rank #23,185 · 18 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,185
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH déficience
Nearest frequency peer: déficience (-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 « délimitation »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- découvrira
découvrira
76,818 corpus weight
- déficience
déficience
76,817 corpus weight
- délimitation
délimitation
76,816 corpus weight
- dénigrer
dénigrer
76,815 corpus weight
- dénué
dénué
76,814 corpus weight
- dépendantes
dépendantes
76,813 corpus weight
What this shows « délimitation » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | délimitation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.li.mi.ta.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #23,185 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « délimitation »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around délimitation (IPA \de.li.mi.ta.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #23,185 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Action de délimiter ou résultat de cette action.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for délimitation, with forms such as "ddélimitation", "delimitation", and "dléimitation". 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. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is délimitation, spelled D-É-L-I-M-I-T-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action de délimiter ou résultat de cette action.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how délimitation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans le discours adressé le 21 mai 1828 au congrès, […]. Il lui annonce que le traité de délimitation avec les États-Unis a été conclu, et qu’il s’en négocie un autre de commerce et de navigation.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddélimitation
- delimitation
- dléimitation
- déilmitation
- déliimtation
- délimiattion
- délimitaiton
- délimitatino
- délimitationn
- délimitatoin
- délimitattion
- délimittaion
- délimittation
- délimmitation
- délimtiation
- déllimitation
- délmiitation
- édlimitation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of délimitation - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "délimitation", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).