fluctuations
\flyk.tɥa.sjɔ̃\
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
- faussement
faussement
82,050 corpus weight
- finiront
finiront
82,049 corpus weight
- flingue
flingue
82,048 corpus weight
- fluctuations
fluctuations
82,047 corpus weight
- folklore
folklore
82,046 corpus weight
- fondue
fondue
82,045 corpus weight
What this shows « fluctuations » 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 | fluctuations |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \flyk.tɥa.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #17,954 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fluctuations »
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
- 1Pluriel de fluctuation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fluctuations appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« 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.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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