examen
\ɛɡ.za.mɛ̃\
The verdict
“examen” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,702. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,702
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Observation attentive, réfléchie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-examen · examen · French
examen · rank #1,702 · 8 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,702
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH employés
Nearest frequency peer: employés (-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 « examen »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- domicile
domicile
98,302 corpus weight
- efforts
efforts
98,301 corpus weight
- employés
employés
98,300 corpus weight
- examen
examen
98,299 corpus weight
- humaine
humaine
98,298 corpus weight
- max
max
98,297 corpus weight
What this shows « examen » 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 | examen |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛɡ.za.mɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,702 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « examen »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around examen (IPA \ɛɡ.za.mɛ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,702 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for examen, with forms such as "eaxmen", "exaemn", and "examenn". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "exams", "examens", "examine", 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 best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is examen, spelled E-X-A-M-E-N.
Definition
- 1Observation attentive, réfléchie.
- 2Examen de conscience, introspection méditative effectuée dans un esprit religieux.
- 3Action de constater le degré d’instruction ou les aptitudes d’une personne par des épreuves écrites ou orales.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how examen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est dans ce cas qu’une uro-IRM ou un uro-scanner, examens permettant de visualiser les voies urinaires, sont réellement utiles, pour effectuer la cartographie la plus précise possible avant d’opérer.
Soit les assauts du conquistador s'arrêtaient au seuil de la couche, soit, si la consommation avait lieu, se déchaînaient ensuite une succession interminable d’examens médicaux : sida, syphilis, gonocoque, staphylocoque et j'en passe...
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eaxmen
- exaemn
- examenn
- exammen
- examne
- exmaen
- exxamen
- xeamen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of examen - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).