illuminations
\i.ly.mi.na.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“illuminations” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,847. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,847
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Coutume traditionnelle de Lyon et de ses environs consistant à illuminer, chaque 8 décembre, les habitations par des lumignons posés sur les rebords des fenêtres.
Corpus desk
Index FR-illuminations · illuminations · French
illuminations · rank #38,847 · 17 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #38,847
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH imminence
Nearest frequency peer: imminence (+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 « illuminations »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- hyènes
hyènes
61,157 corpus weight
- icon
icon
61,156 corpus weight
- illuminatio…
illuminations
61,154 corpus weight
- imminence
imminence
61,153 corpus weight
- imperméables
imperméables
61,152 corpus weight
- imprégnée
imprégnée
61,151 corpus weight
What this shows « illuminations » 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 | illuminations |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \i.ly.mi.na.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #38,847 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « illuminations »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around illuminations (IPA \i.ly.mi.na.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #38,847 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Coutume traditionnelle de Lyon et de ses environs consistant à illuminer, chaque 8 décembre, les habitations par des lumignons posés sur les rebords des fenêtres.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for illuminations, with forms such as "illmuinations", "illuimnations", and "illumiantions". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "illumination", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is illuminations, spelled I-L-L-U-M-I-N-A-T-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Coutume traditionnelle de Lyon et de ses environs consistant à illuminer, chaque 8 décembre, les habitations par des lumignons posés sur les rebords des fenêtres.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how illuminations appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La spontanéité qui a présidé aux illuminations de Lyon, à deux jours différents, prouve assez combien ce culte est cher à nos contrées. Les somptueux hôtels, les masures, le premier, la mansarde, dedans, dehors, malgré la pluie, malgré le vent, partout dans Lyon on voyait que les joies étaient vives et libres, à l’occasion de l’inauguration de l’image de…
La fête religieuse et profane des illuminations embrase les quatre coins de la cité, de milliers de lampions et bougies posées sur les rebords des fenêtres. Orchestres et dégustations de crêpes et marrons chauds s’improvisent aux quatre coins de la ville redessinée en pointillés par les lumignons.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- illmuinations
- illuimnations
- illumiantions
- illuminaitons
- illuminatinos
- illuminationns
- illuminationss
- illuminatiosn
- illuminatoins
- illuminattions
- illuminnations
- illumintaions
- illumminations
- illumniations
- ilulminations
- iluminations
- liluminations
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of illuminations - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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