extermination
\ɛks.tɛʁ.mi.na.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“extermination” has 19 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,424. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,424
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 19
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’exterminer ou résultat de cette action.
Corpus desk
Index FR-extermination · extermination · French
extermination · rank #17,424 · 19 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,424
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 19 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH expérimenter
Nearest frequency peer: expérimenter (-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 « extermination »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- espérais
espérais
82,580 corpus weight
- excessiveme…
excessivement
82,579 corpus weight
- expérimenter
expérimenter
82,578 corpus weight
- exterminati…
extermination
82,577 corpus weight
- fabre
fabre
82,576 corpus weight
- feel
feel
82,575 corpus weight
What this shows « extermination » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | extermination |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛks.tɛʁ.mi.na.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #17,424 |
| Misspellings tracked | 19 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « extermination »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 19 spelling variants around extermination (IPA \ɛks.tɛʁ.mi.na.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,424 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 19 likely wrong-spelling variants for extermination, with forms such as "etxermination", "exetrmination", and "extemrination". 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. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is extermination, spelled E-X-T-E-R-M-I-N-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action d’exterminer ou résultat de cette action.
- 2Destruction totale, ruine absolue.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how extermination appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette sanglante extermination, qui semblait devoir anéantir le bouddhisme, fut ce qui lui livra presque toute la haute Asie. Repoussé de l'Inde, il se répandit sur tous les pays environnans^([sic]), …
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etxermination
- exetrmination
- extemrination
- exterimnation
- extermiantion
- exterminaiton
- exterminatino
- exterminationn
- exterminatoin
- exterminattion
- exterminnation
- extermintaion
- extermmination
- extermniation
- exterrmination
- extremination
- exttermination
- exxtermination
- xetermination
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of extermination - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "extermination", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (19 here; floor ≥5).