démolition
\de.mɔ.li.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“démolition” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,953. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,953
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de démolir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-demolition · démolition · French
démolition · rank #11,953 · 15 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,953
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Dumas
Nearest frequency peer: Dumas (-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 « démolition »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- dog
dog
88,051 corpus weight
- drague
drague
88,050 corpus weight
- Dumas
Dumas
88,049 corpus weight
- démolition
démolition
88,048 corpus weight
- dénoncent
dénoncent
88,047 corpus weight
- dérouler
dérouler
88,045 corpus weight
What this shows « démolition » 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 | démolition |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.mɔ.li.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #11,953 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « démolition »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around démolition (IPA \de.mɔ.li.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,953 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for démolition, with forms such as "ddémolition", "demolition", and "dméolition". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "désolation", "dévolution", "démolitions", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is démolition, spelled D-É-M-O-L-I-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action de démolir.
- 2Matériaux qui restent de ce qu’on démolit.
- 3Destruction physique ou morale d’une personne.
- 4Destruction méthodique d’arguments, d’un raisonnement etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how démolition appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le but de notre bon entrepreneur de démolition, c’est toujours d’apprendre à se désétonner.
L'histoire de la vénérologie à Cochin, ou plutôt à l’hôpital Ricord n'est pas simple à établir car une grande partie des archives de cet hôpital a disparu, probablement au début du siècle lors de sa démolition.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddémolition
- demolition
- dméolition
- démloition
- démmolition
- démoiltion
- démoliiton
- démolitino
- démolitionn
- démolitoin
- démolittion
- démollition
- démoltiion
- déomlition
- édmolition
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of démolition - 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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