externalisation
\ɛks.tɛʁ.na.li.za.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“externalisation” has 22 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,424. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,424
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 22
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Recours à un partenaire extérieur pour exercer une activité qu’une entreprise ou une organisation décide de ne plus assurer elle-même.
Corpus desk
Index FR-externalisation · externalisation · French
externalisation · rank #43,424 · 22 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,424
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 22 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH exposait
Nearest frequency peer: exposait (-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 « externalisation »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- expier
expier
56,580 corpus weight
- expliquaient
expliquaient
56,579 corpus weight
- exposait
exposait
56,578 corpus weight
- externalisa…
externalisation
56,577 corpus weight
- faciales
faciales
56,575 corpus weight
- faiblir
faiblir
56,574 corpus weight
What this shows « externalisation » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | externalisation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛks.tɛʁ.na.li.za.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Frequency rank | #43,424 |
| Misspellings tracked | 22 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « externalisation »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 22 spelling variants around externalisation (IPA \ɛks.tɛʁ.na.li.za.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #43,424 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 22 likely wrong-spelling variants for externalisation, with forms such as "etxernalisation", "exetrnalisation", and "extenralisation". 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. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is externalisation, spelled E-X-T-E-R-N-A-L-I-S-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Recours à un partenaire extérieur pour exercer une activité qu’une entreprise ou une organisation décide de ne plus assurer elle-même.
- 2Fait de déléguer une fonction cognitive.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how externalisation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La perte de contrôle est l’un des plus grands risques de l’externalisation. De nombreuses entreprises ont recours à l’externalisation parce qu’elles pensent qu’il est plus facile de gérer un fournisseur ou un prestataire extérieur qu’un service interne.
En repoussant les dommages à la périphérie européenne, l’externalisation des productions sales permet à la fois une maximisation des profits pour les multinationales et la minimisation des risques pour les États centraux.
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etxernalisation
- exetrnalisation
- extenralisation
- exteranlisation
- externailsation
- externaliastion
- externalisaiton
- externalisatino
- externalisationn
- externalisatoin
- externalisattion
- externalissation
- externalistaion
- externallisation
- externalsiation
- externlaisation
- externnalisation
- exterrnalisation
- extrenalisation
- extternalisation
- exxternalisation
- xeternalisation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of externalisation - 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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