distillation
\dis.ti.la.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“distillation” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,918. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,918
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de distiller, opération par laquelle on sépare par la chaleur des substances composées pour en recueillir les parties volatiles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-distillation · distillation · French
distillation · rank #28,918 · 16 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,918
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dissimulée
Nearest frequency peer: dissimulée (-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 « distillation »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- diluer
diluer
71,086 corpus weight
- discutait
discutait
71,085 corpus weight
- dissimulée
dissimulée
71,084 corpus weight
- distillation
distillation
71,083 corpus weight
- distribuent
distribuent
71,082 corpus weight
- docu
docu
71,081 corpus weight
What this shows « distillation » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | distillation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dis.ti.la.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #28,918 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « distillation »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around distillation (IPA \dis.ti.la.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #28,918 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for distillation, with forms such as "ddistillation", "disitllation", and "disstillation". 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. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is distillation, spelled D-I-S-T-I-L-L-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action de distiller, opération par laquelle on sépare par la chaleur des substances composées pour en recueillir les parties volatiles.
- 2Distillat, obtenu par cette opération.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how distillation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quelquefois on remplace le sulfate de cuivre par la créosote, huile très-caustique que l'on obtient par la distillation du goudron de houille.
Quant à la distillation du mélange de dissolvant et d'essence, elle s'effectue dans les alambics chauffés à la vapeur.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddistillation
- disitllation
- disstillation
- distilaltion
- distilation
- distillaiton
- distillatino
- distillationn
- distillatoin
- distillattion
- distilltaion
- distlilation
- disttillation
- ditsillation
- dsitillation
- idstillation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of distillation - 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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