destructions
\dɛs.tʁyk.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“destructions” has 19 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,980. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,980
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 19
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de destruction.
Corpus desk
Index FR-destructions · destructions · French
destructions · rank #18,980 · 19 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,980
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 19 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dialoguer
Nearest frequency peer: dialoguer (+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 « destructions »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- croît
croît
81,024 corpus weight
- cultivés
cultivés
81,023 corpus weight
- destructions
destructions
81,021 corpus weight
- dialoguer
dialoguer
81,020 corpus weight
- diamond
diamond
81,019 corpus weight
- didactique
didactique
81,018 corpus weight
What this shows « destructions » 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 | destructions |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɛs.tʁyk.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #18,980 |
| Misspellings tracked | 19 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « destructions »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 19 spelling variants around destructions (IPA \dɛs.tʁyk.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,980 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de destruction.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 19 likely wrong-spelling variants for destructions, with forms such as "ddestructions", "desrtuctions", and "desstructions". 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, "distractions", "destruction", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is destructions, spelled D-E-S-T-R-U-C-T-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de destruction.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how destructions appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les équipées y sont des épopées, les vaincus provisoires des visionnaires providentiels et les destructions cumulées des épreuves nécessaires à ce qu’il est convenu d’appeler « le progrès européen du pays » ; un progrès qui devra tout à l’ardeur positiviste d’élites soucieuses de se « décastillaniser », de se rapprocher des nations modernes, de s’enrichir…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddestructions
- desrtuctions
- desstructions
- destrcutions
- destrructions
- destrucctions
- destrucitons
- destructinos
- destructionns
- destructionss
- destructiosn
- destructoins
- destructtions
- destrutcions
- desttructions
- desturctions
- detsructions
- dsetructions
- edstructions
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of destructions - 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 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (19 here; floor ≥5).