élections
\e.lɛk.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“élections” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,016. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,016
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de élection.
Corpus desk
Index FR-elections · élections · French
élections · rank #1,016 · 14 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,016
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH édition
Nearest frequency peer: édition (-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 « élections »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- table
table
98,988 corpus weight
- vaut
vaut
98,987 corpus weight
- édition
édition
98,986 corpus weight
- élections
élections
98,985 corpus weight
- analyse
analyse
98,984 corpus weight
- arrêté
arrêté
98,983 corpus weight
What this shows « élections » 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 | élections |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.lɛk.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #1,016 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « élections »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around élections (IPA \e.lɛk.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,016 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de élection.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for élections, with forms such as "elections", "léections", and "éelctions". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "érection", "électron", "exactions", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is élections, spelled É-L-E-C-T-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de élection.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how élections appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des bruits couraient ces jours-ci qu’une tentative de coup de force serait essayée par le Parti Socialiste Unifié bolchevisant le soir des Élections.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- elections
- léections
- éelctions
- élcetions
- élecctions
- élecitons
- électinos
- électionns
- électionss
- électiosn
- électoins
- électtions
- életcions
- éllections
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of élections - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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