évocation

\e.vɔ.ka.sjɔ̃\

/\e.vɔ.ka.sjɔ̃\/ noun

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The verdict

“évocation” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,551. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#15,551
frequency rank, French
1,805
“É” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
5
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’appeler, de faire venir, de faire apparaître, en parlant des âmes, des esprits, etc.

Corpus desk

Index FR-evocation · évocation · French

évocation · rank #15,551 · 13 variants · 5 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #15,551
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,805
  • PHOTO-FINISH étendues

Nearest frequency peer: étendues (-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 « évocation »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « évocation » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

évocation vs évolution
78% similar
évocation vs éviction
78% similar
évocation vs education
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for évocation
PropertyValue
Headwordévocation
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\e.vɔ.ka.sjɔ̃\
Letters9
Frequency rank#15,551
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « évocation »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.évocationse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « étendues » (#15,550), « abondamment » (#15,552), « équilibrée » (#15,549). Parmi 1,805 lemmes en « É », « évocation » est au #15,551. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around évocation (IPA \e.vɔ.ka.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,551 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for évocation, with forms such as "evocation", "véocation", and "éovcation". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "évolution", "éviction", "education", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is évocation, spelled É-V-O-C-A-T-I-O-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action d’appeler, de faire venir, de faire apparaître, en parlant des âmes, des esprits, etc.
  2. 2
    Action de rappeler à la mémoire, de remettre sous les yeux l’image de ce qui a disparu.
  3. 3
    Action d’évoquer une cause, une affaire.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how évocation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Le curé de Melotte […] n’était plus craint. Ses foudres de carton, ses tonnerres lointains, l’évocation des bûchers infernaux, la promesse des félicités paradisiaques dans un éden, somme toute, passablement morne et fort problématique, ne faisaient plus guère frémir que quelques vieilles dévotes et les gosses de neuf à onze ans […].
  2. Un jour qu’il pleuvait sur le veld – une pluie fine et glacée qui vous pénétrait jusqu’aux os –, Ouma Nandi avait fait un étrange récit aux garçons, où il était question de farouches guerriers, du grand roi Chaka, celui dont la simple évocation faisait encore trembler les tribus d’un bord à l’autre du continent, et d’un fameux dieu de la guerre. Elle leur…

This word in other languages

evocation(English)Erinnerung(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • evocation
  • véocation
  • éovcation
  • évcoation
  • évoaction
  • évocaiton
  • évocatino
  • évocationn
  • évocatoin
  • évocattion
  • évoccation
  • évoctaion
  • évvocation

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of évocation - 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.

evocation1véocation2éovcation2évcoation2évoaction2évocaiton2évocatino2évocationn1
Edit distance from "évocation"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "évocation"?
"évocation" is spelled É-V-O-C-A-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \e.vɔ.ka.sjɔ̃\.
What does "évocation" mean?
As a noun, "évocation" means: Action d’appeler, de faire venir, de faire apparaître, en parlant des âmes, des esprits, etc.
What words are commonly confused with "évocation"?
"évocation" is commonly confused with "évolution", "éviction", "education". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "évocation"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "évocation" is \e.vɔ.ka.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "évocation" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "évocation", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

épuration#15,548énergique#15,547éloignées#15,546assimiler#15,567

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

échelons13 variantsaquatiques13 variantsbouddhisme13 variantsbrancher13 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list