distinctions
\dis.tɛ̃k.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“distinctions” has 19 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,908. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,908
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 19
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de distinction.
Corpus desk
Index FR-distinctions · distinctions · French
distinctions · rank #14,908 · 19 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,908
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 19 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH douteuse
Nearest frequency peer: douteuse (+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 « distinctions »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- dam
dam
85,097 corpus weight
- Descartes
Descartes
85,096 corpus weight
- DG
DG
85,095 corpus weight
- distinctions
distinctions
85,093 corpus weight
- douteuse
douteuse
85,092 corpus weight
- découpage
découpage
85,090 corpus weight
What this shows « distinctions » 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 | distinctions |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dis.tɛ̃k.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #14,908 |
| Misspellings tracked | 19 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « distinctions »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 19 spelling variants around distinctions (IPA \dis.tɛ̃k.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,908 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de distinction.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 19 likely wrong-spelling variants for distinctions, with forms such as "ddistinctions", "disitnctions", and "disstinctions". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "distractions", "distinction", "distinctifs", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 distinctions, spelled D-I-S-T-I-N-C-T-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de distinction.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how distinctions appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Que le nombre important de naissances illégitimes soit une marque d’immoralité, je le veux bien ; encore est-il qu’il faut faire des distinctions et examiner si ce n’est pas plutôt un signe d’irrégularité que d’immoralité.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddistinctions
- disitnctions
- disstinctions
- disticntions
- distincctions
- distincitons
- distinctinos
- distinctionns
- distinctionss
- distinctiosn
- distinctoins
- distincttions
- distinnctions
- distintcions
- distnictions
- disttinctions
- ditsinctions
- dsitinctions
- idstinctions
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of distinctions - 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
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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).