formations
\fɔʁ.ma.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“formations” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,613. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,613
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de formation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-formations · formations · French
formations · rank #3,613 · 15 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,613
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fondée
Nearest frequency peer: fondée (-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 « formations »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- faisais
faisais
96,391 corpus weight
- fiscale
fiscale
96,390 corpus weight
- fondée
fondée
96,389 corpus weight
- formations
formations
96,388 corpus weight
- gorge
gorge
96,387 corpus weight
- guerres
guerres
96,386 corpus weight
What this shows « formations » 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 | formations |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɔʁ.ma.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #3,613 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « formations »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around formations (IPA \fɔʁ.ma.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,613 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de formation.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for formations, with forms such as "fformations", "fomrations", and "foramtions". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "formulations", "formation", "fondations", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is formations, spelled F-O-R-M-A-T-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de formation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how formations appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les trolls font partie des personnages légendaires qui peuplent les croyances islandaises. Les Islandais donnent ainsi une histoire aux fameuses formations rocheuses Reynisdrangar à Vík.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- fformations
- fomrations
- foramtions
- formaitons
- formatinos
- formationns
- formationss
- formatiosn
- formatoins
- formattions
- formmations
- formtaions
- forrmations
- fromations
- ofrmations
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of formations - 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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).