espacement
\ɛs.pas.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“espacement” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #41,777. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,777
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’espacer ou résultat de cette action.
Corpus desk
Index FR-espacement · espacement · French
espacement · rank #41,777 · 15 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,777
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH espresso
Nearest frequency peer: espresso (+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 « espacement »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- entassent
entassent
58,230 corpus weight
- espacement
espacement
58,224 corpus weight
- espresso
espresso
58,223 corpus weight
- esquisser
esquisser
58,222 corpus weight
- estomper
estomper
58,220 corpus weight
- everybody
everybody
58,219 corpus weight
What this shows « espacement » 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 | espacement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛs.pas.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #41,777 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « espacement »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around espacement (IPA \ɛs.pas.mɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #41,777 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for espacement, with forms such as "epsacement", "esapcement", and "espaccement". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "effacement", "emplacement", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is espacement, spelled E-S-P-A-C-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Action d’espacer ou résultat de cette action.
- 2Distance entre les axes de deux caractères consécutifs, mesurée parallèlement à la ligne de base.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how espacement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’espacement des poteaux, des solives, des colonnes, des bâtiments.
En définitive, les comportements des couples en matière d’espacement des naissances varient encore relativement peu, et les signes de grands changements ne sont guère évidents dans la majorité des populations.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epsacement
- esapcement
- espaccement
- espaceemnt
- espacemennt
- espacementt
- espacemetn
- espacemment
- espacemnet
- espacmeent
- espaecment
- espcaement
- esppacement
- esspacement
- sepacement
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of espacement - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).