dérogation
\de.ʁɔ.ɡa.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“dérogation” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,118. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,118
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de déroger à une loi, à un acte quelconque de l’autorité publique, à un traité, à un usage, à des droits, etc., ou résultat de cette action.
Corpus desk
Index FR-derogation · dérogation · French
dérogation · rank #16,118 · 15 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,118
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH déplacée
Nearest frequency peer: déplacée (-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 « dérogation »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- déguster
déguster
83,886 corpus weight
- dénommé
dénommé
83,885 corpus weight
- déplacée
déplacée
83,884 corpus weight
- dérogation
dérogation
83,883 corpus weight
- détaillés
détaillés
83,882 corpus weight
- effigie
effigie
83,881 corpus weight
What this shows « dérogation » 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 | dérogation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.ʁɔ.ɡa.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #16,118 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dérogation »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around dérogation (IPA \de.ʁɔ.ɡa.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,118 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for dérogation, with forms such as "ddérogation", "derogation", and "dréogation". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "désolation", "détonation", "dérogations", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is dérogation, spelled D-É-R-O-G-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action de déroger à une loi, à un acte quelconque de l’autorité publique, à un traité, à un usage, à des droits, etc., ou résultat de cette action.
- 2Suppression ou modification d’une loi par le parlement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dérogation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est une dérogation à l’usage.
Ce codicille renfermait une dérogation importante au testament.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddérogation
- derogation
- dréogation
- déorgation
- dérgoation
- déroagtion
- dérogaiton
- dérogatino
- dérogationn
- dérogatoin
- dérogattion
- déroggation
- dérogtaion
- dérrogation
- édrogation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dérogation - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "dérogation", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).