indications
\ɛ̃.di.ka.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“indications” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,977. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,977
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de indication.
Corpus desk
Index FR-indications · indications · French
indications · rank #7,977 · 16 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,977
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH imposée
Nearest frequency peer: imposée (-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 « indications »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- humble
humble
92,028 corpus weight
- imposée
imposée
92,025 corpus weight
- indications
indications
92,024 corpus weight
- influences
influences
92,023 corpus weight
- inquiet
inquiet
92,022 corpus weight
- inspirée
inspirée
92,021 corpus weight
What this shows « indications » 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 | indications |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.di.ka.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #7,977 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « indications »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around indications (IPA \ɛ̃.di.ka.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,977 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de indication.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for indications, with forms such as "idnications", "indciations", and "inddications". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "invitations", "invocations", "indication", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 indications, spelled I-N-D-I-C-A-T-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de indication.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how indications appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Essayons de donner quelques indications rudimentaires qui permettraient de saisir dans la musique, la danse, la photographie ou le cinéma, l’actualisation artistique de l’exclu sous une forme volontairement désublimisée ou désartialisée.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- idnications
- indciations
- inddications
- indiactions
- indicaitons
- indicatinos
- indicationns
- indicationss
- indicatiosn
- indicatoins
- indicattions
- indiccations
- indictaions
- inidcations
- inndications
- nidications
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of indications - 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
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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).