distractions
\dis.tʁak.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“distractions” has 19 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,406. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,406
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 19
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de distraction.
Corpus desk
Index FR-distractions · distractions · French
distractions · rank #27,406 · 19 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,406
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 19 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH disposée
Nearest frequency peer: disposée (-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 « distractions »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- diaporama
diaporama
72,598 corpus weight
- disposée
disposée
72,596 corpus weight
- distractions
distractions
72,595 corpus weight
- div
div
72,594 corpus weight
- divorcée
divorcée
72,593 corpus weight
- douanier
douanier
72,592 corpus weight
What this shows « distractions » 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 | distractions |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dis.tʁak.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #27,406 |
| Misspellings tracked | 19 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « distractions »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 19 spelling variants around distractions (IPA \dis.tʁak.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,406 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de distraction.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 19 likely wrong-spelling variants for distractions, with forms such as "ddistractions", "disrtactions", and "disstractions". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "distraction", "distinctions", "destructions", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is distractions, spelled D-I-S-T-R-A-C-T-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de distraction.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how distractions appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À Paris, les hommes sont des systèmes, en Province les systèmes deviennent des hommes, et des hommes à passions incessantes, toujours en présence, s’épiant dans leur intérieur, épiloguant leurs discours, s’observant comme deux duellistes prêts à s’enfoncer six pouces de lame au côté à la moindre distraction, et tâchant de se donner des distractions, enfin…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddistractions
- disrtactions
- disstractions
- distarctions
- distracctions
- distracitons
- distractinos
- distractionns
- distractionss
- distractiosn
- distractoins
- distracttions
- distratcions
- distrcations
- distrractions
- disttractions
- ditsractions
- dsitractions
- idstractions
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of distractions - 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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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).