fluctuations

\flyk.tɥa.sjɔ̃\

/\flyk.tɥa.sjɔ̃\/ noun

The verdict

“fluctuations” has 18 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,954. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#17,954
frequency rank, French
3,276
“F” headwords
18
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de fluctuation.

Corpus desk

Index FR-fluctuations · fluctuations · French

fluctuations · rank #17,954 · 18 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #17,954
  • LEN-MEGA 12 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 18 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,276
  • PHOTO-FINISH flingue

Nearest frequency peer: flingue (-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 « fluctuations »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « fluctuations » 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).

fluctuations vs fluctuation
92% similar

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

Key facts for fluctuations
PropertyValue
Headwordfluctuations
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\flyk.tɥa.sjɔ̃\
Letters12
Frequency rank#17,954
Misspellings tracked18
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fluctuations »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.fluctuationsse 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 « flingue » (#17,953), « folklore » (#17,955), « finiront » (#17,952). Parmi 3,276 lemmes en « F », « fluctuations » est au #17,954. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 18 spelling variants around fluctuations (IPA \flyk.tɥa.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,954 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de fluctuation.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for fluctuations, with forms such as "ffluctuations", "flcutuations", and "flluctuations". 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, "fluctuation", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 fluctuations, spelled F-L-U-C-T-U-A-T-I-O-N-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de fluctuation.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. « Les traitements les plus systématiquement étudiés ont été l’élimination des fluctuations hormonales par des traitements de suppression de l’ovulation ou la correction du dérèglement des neurotransmetteurs par des antidépresseurs ou des anxiolytiques », rapportent Teri Pearlstein et Meir Steiner pour le Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ffluctuations
  • flcutuations
  • flluctuations
  • flucctuations
  • fluctautions
  • flucttuations
  • fluctuaitons
  • fluctuatinos
  • fluctuationns
  • fluctuationss
  • fluctuatiosn
  • fluctuatoins
  • fluctuattions
  • fluctutaions
  • flucutations
  • flutcuations
  • fulctuations
  • lfuctuations

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fluctuations - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

ffluctuations1flcutuations2flluctuations1flucctuations1fluctautions2flucttuations1fluctuaitons2fluctuatinos2
Edit distance from "fluctuations"

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 "fluctuations"?
"fluctuations" is spelled F-L-U-C-T-U-A-T-I-O-N-S. The IPA pronunciation is \flyk.tɥa.sjɔ̃\.
What does "fluctuations" mean?
As a noun, "fluctuations" means: Pluriel de fluctuation.
What words are commonly confused with "fluctuations"?
"fluctuations" is commonly confused with "fluctuation". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "fluctuations"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "fluctuations" is \flyk.tɥa.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "fluctuations" come from?
"fluctuations" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list