lamentations
\la.mɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“lamentations” has 18 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,753. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,753
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de lamentation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lamentations · lamentations · French
lamentations · rank #33,753 · 18 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,753
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Lalande
Nearest frequency peer: Lalande (-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 « lamentations »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- kimono
kimono
66,251 corpus weight
- Lalande
Lalande
66,249 corpus weight
- lamentations
lamentations
66,248 corpus weight
- landau
landau
66,247 corpus weight
- leitmotiv
leitmotiv
66,246 corpus weight
- lemon
lemon
66,245 corpus weight
What this shows « lamentations » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lamentations |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \la.mɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #33,753 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « lamentations »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around lamentations (IPA \la.mɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #33,753 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de lamentation.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for lamentations, with forms such as "almentations", "laemntations", and "lamenattions". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is lamentations, spelled L-A-M-E-N-T-A-T-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de lamentation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lamentations appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Elles feront un procès-verbal, » ajoute Bossuet, en regardant, comme pour les pressentir, la mère Agnès et la sœur Sainte-Thérèse ? Péréfixe rappelant, à ce propos, les cris, les pleurs, les lamentations qu’on avait vus, à Port-Royal, le 26 août de l’année précédente, « Il faut les excuser, monseigneur (observa la mère Agnès), ce sont de pauvres filles…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- almentations
- laemntations
- lamenattions
- lamenntations
- lamentaitons
- lamentatinos
- lamentationns
- lamentationss
- lamentatiosn
- lamentatoins
- lamentattions
- lamenttaions
- lamenttations
- lametnations
- lammentations
- lamnetations
- llamentations
- lmaentations
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of lamentations - 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 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).