estimation
\ɛs.ti.ma.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“estimation” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,392. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,392
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’attribuer un prix à quelque chose d’existant, de l’évaluer, d’en estimer la valeur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-estimation · estimation · French
estimation · rank #6,392 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-COMMON #6,392
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH esclave
Nearest frequency peer: esclave (-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 « estimation »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- doctrine
doctrine
93,612 corpus weight
- esclave
esclave
93,610 corpus weight
- estimation
estimation
93,609 corpus weight
- exclu
exclu
93,608 corpus weight
- extrémité
extrémité
93,607 corpus weight
- filet
filet
93,606 corpus weight
What this shows « estimation » 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 | estimation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛs.ti.ma.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #6,392 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « estimation »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around estimation (IPA \ɛs.ti.ma.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,392 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 7 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for estimation, with forms such as "esitmation", "esstimation", and "estiamtion". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "estimations", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is estimation, spelled E-S-T-I-M-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action d’attribuer un prix à quelque chose d’existant, de l’évaluer, d’en estimer la valeur.
- 2Évaluation d'une quantité.
- 3Opérations de chiffrage :
- 4Prédiction d’une grandeur, une performance, le coût ou la durée d’une tâche d’un projet.
- 5Discipline ou fonction remplie par le personnel qui réalise ces chiffrages, qu’il soit l’exécutant de la tâche estimée ou affecté uniquement à cette fonction.
- 6Résultat, chiffre résultant de cette opération, coût présenté sur un devis.
- 7Offre commerciale, budget.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how estimation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En regardant de plus près, ils s’aperçoivent alors que tous les produits étaient périmés depuis longtemps. Le « partenaire » coréen avait « arrosé » l’auditeur lors de l’estimation comptable de l’apport en capital.
Pour certaines opérations ( estimation de la charge d'un camion ou d'un engin, estimation approchée du volume d'une bille, etc.. ) il n'est pas utile d'effectuer un cubage précis.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- esitmation
- esstimation
- estiamtion
- estimaiton
- estimatino
- estimationn
- estimatoin
- estimattion
- estimmation
- estimtaion
- estmiation
- esttimation
- etsimation
- setimation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of estimation - 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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