expérimentation
\ɛk.spe.ʁi.mɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“expérimentation” has 23 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,830. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,830
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 23
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’expérimenter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-experimentation · expérimentation · French
expérimentation · rank #9,830 · 23 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-COMMON #9,830
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 23 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH exclusivité
Nearest frequency peer: exclusivité (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “expérimentation”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Europa
Europa
90,174 corpus weight
- exclus
exclus
90,173 corpus weight
- exclusivité
exclusivité
90,172 corpus weight
- expérimenta…
expérimentation
90,171 corpus weight
- feras
feras
90,170 corpus weight
- Ferrand
Ferrand
90,169 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “expérimentation” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | expérimentation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛk.spe.ʁi.mɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Frequency rank | #9,830 |
| Misspellings tracked | 23 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “expérimentation” se place dans la fréquence du français
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 23 spelling variants around expérimentation (IPA \ɛk.spe.ʁi.mɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,830 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 23 likely wrong-spelling variants for expérimentation, with forms such as "epxérimentation", "experimentation", and "exppérimentation". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "expérimentations", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is expérimentation, spelled E-X-P-É-R-I-M-E-N-T-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action d’expérimenter.
- 2Ensemble des moyens et procédures de contrôle destinés à vérifier une hypothèse ou une théorie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how expérimentation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le libéralisme et l’expérimentation sexuelle ne sont que la partie la plus distrayante d'une transformation mentale plus vaste. Sans être obligatoirement la plus importante.
Malheureusement, il n’existait aucun attachement philosophique au laïcisme et à ses valeurs de scepticisme, d’expérimentation et de tolérance, si essentielles au pluralisme politique.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epxérimentation
- experimentation
- exppérimentation
- expréimentation
- expéirmentation
- expériemntation
- expérimenattion
- expérimenntation
- expérimentaiton
- expérimentatino
- expérimentationn
- expérimentatoin
- expérimentattion
- expérimenttaion
- expérimenttation
- expérimetnation
- expérimmentation
- expérimnetation
- expérmientation
- expérrimentation
- exxpérimentation
- exéprimentation
- xepérimentation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of expérimentation - 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 15 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (23 here; floor ≥5).
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- This headword has one recorded confusable pair with "expérimentations". View pair
- 23 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #9,830 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.