location
\lɔ.ka.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“location” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,687. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,687
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action par laquelle le propriétaire d’une chose la donne à quelqu’un, à titre de louage ou de bail.
Corpus desk
Index FR-location · location · French
location · rank #4,687 · 11 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,687
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH logo
Nearest frequency peer: logo (+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 « location »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Jones
Jones
95,317 corpus weight
- Jérôme
Jérôme
95,316 corpus weight
- location
location
95,314 corpus weight
- logo
logo
95,313 corpus weight
- lâcher
lâcher
95,312 corpus weight
- manifeste
manifeste
95,311 corpus weight
What this shows « location » 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 | location |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɔ.ka.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #4,687 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « location »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around location (IPA \lɔ.ka.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,687 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for location, with forms such as "lcoation", "llocation", and "loaction". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "lotion", "locative", "locution", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is location, spelled L-O-C-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action par laquelle le propriétaire d’une chose la donne à quelqu’un, à titre de louage ou de bail.
- 2Action de retenir à l’avance sa place, moyennant ou non un prix supplémentaire, dans un théâtre, dans une salle de concerts, de conférences, dans un compartiment de chemin de fer, sur un bateau, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how location appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Leur activité se donnait surtout libre cours dans la location des bicyclettes. C’était là un singulier commerce que ne régissait aucun principe commercial ou économique connu, que ne régissait, à vrai dire, aucun principe.
S'il s'agit d'une location pour une durée déterminée et qu'il reste moins de douze mois à courir à la location, le nouveau locateur ne peut mettre fin au bail et le locataire ne perdra aucun droit.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lcoation
- llocation
- loaction
- locaiton
- locatino
- locationn
- locatoin
- locattion
- loccation
- loctaion
- olcation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of location - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).