hésitations
\e.zi.ta.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“hésitations” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,403. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,403
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de hésitation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hesitations · hésitations · French
hésitations · rank #26,403 · 17 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,403
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH imbattable
Nearest frequency peer: imbattable (+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 « hésitations »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- humiliée
humiliée
73,601 corpus weight
- hurlent
hurlent
73,600 corpus weight
- hésitations
hésitations
73,598 corpus weight
- imbattable
imbattable
73,597 corpus weight
- implémentat…
implémentation
73,596 corpus weight
- incorrect
incorrect
73,595 corpus weight
What this shows « hésitations » 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 | hésitations |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.zi.ta.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #26,403 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « hésitations »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around hésitations (IPA \e.zi.ta.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #26,403 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de hésitation.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for hésitations, with forms such as "hesitations", "hhésitations", and "hséitations". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "hésitation", "habitations", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is hésitations, spelled H-É-S-I-T-A-T-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de hésitation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hésitations appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’angoisse dans ma voix, le débit lent, ânonnant, les nombreuses hésitations avaient littéralement massacré ce texte d’anthologie.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hesitations
- hhésitations
- hséitations
- héistations
- hésiattions
- hésitaitons
- hésitatinos
- hésitationns
- hésitationss
- hésitatiosn
- hésitatoins
- hésitattions
- hésittaions
- hésittations
- héssitations
- héstiations
- éhsitations
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hésitations - 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 "hésitations", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).