importation
\ɛ̃.pɔʁ.ta.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“importation” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,175. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,175
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’importer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-importation · importation · French
importation · rank #10,175 · 16 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,175
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH immenses
Nearest frequency peer: immenses (-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 « importation »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- humides
humides
89,829 corpus weight
- icône
icône
89,828 corpus weight
- immenses
immenses
89,827 corpus weight
- importation
importation
89,826 corpus weight
- incendies
incendies
89,824 corpus weight
- incite
incite
89,823 corpus weight
What this shows « importation » 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 | importation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.pɔʁ.ta.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #10,175 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « importation »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around importation (IPA \ɛ̃.pɔʁ.ta.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,175 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for importation, with forms such as "immportation", "imoprtation", and "imporattion". 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, "imputation", "importations", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is importation, spelled I-M-P-O-R-T-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action d’importer.
- 2Marchandises importées.
- 3Transport d’un pays dans un autre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how importation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces derniers jugent déloyales les importations de tomates iraniennes.
La société Funboard importe des planches à roulettes de Corée et de Taïwan selon les modèles. La dernière commande concerne l’importation de 8 000 planches à roulettes au prix unitaire de 100 USD CIF Le Havre.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- immportation
- imoprtation
- imporattion
- imporrtation
- importaiton
- importatino
- importationn
- importatoin
- importattion
- importtaion
- importtation
- impotration
- impportation
- improtation
- ipmortation
- miportation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of importation - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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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 (16 here; floor ≥5).