donation
\dɔ.na.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“donation” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,358. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,358
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Don qui se fait par acte public.
Corpus desk
Index FR-donation · donation · French
donation · rank #12,358 · 11 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,358
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH divinité
Nearest frequency peer: divinité (-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 « donation »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- dividendes
dividendes
87,645 corpus weight
- divinité
divinité
87,644 corpus weight
- donation
donation
87,643 corpus weight
- draguer
draguer
87,642 corpus weight
- Durand
Durand
87,641 corpus weight
- durement
durement
87,640 corpus weight
What this shows « donation » 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 | donation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɔ.na.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #12,358 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « donation »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around donation (IPA \dɔ.na.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,358 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for donation, with forms such as "ddonation", "dnoation", and "doantion". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "dotation", "donations", "dotations", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is donation, spelled D-O-N-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Don qui se fait par acte public.
- 2L’acte par lequel on fait une donation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how donation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous parlions de drame, ah ! je vous assure que si nous pouvions dire le secret de certaines donations, nos auteurs pourraient en faire de terribles tragédies bourgeoises.
[…], par conséquent, il y a eu concours des volontés et réalisation de la donation le jour où la chose, offerte par le donateur (en la personne de son mandataire), a été acceptée par le donataire en personne.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddonation
- dnoation
- doantion
- donaiton
- donatino
- donationn
- donatoin
- donattion
- donnation
- dontaion
- odnation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of donation - 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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