machination
\ma.ʃi.na.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“machination” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,479. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,479
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Intrigue, menée secrète pour faire réussir quelque mauvais dessein, quelque complot, pour nuire à quelqu’un, pour le perdre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-machination · machination · French
machination · rank #36,479 · 16 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,479
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH malais
Nearest frequency peer: malais (+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 « machination »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- luth
luth
63,525 corpus weight
- Lutz
Lutz
63,524 corpus weight
- machination
machination
63,522 corpus weight
- malais
malais
63,521 corpus weight
- malbouffe
malbouffe
63,520 corpus weight
- mango
mango
63,519 corpus weight
What this shows « machination » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | machination |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.ʃi.na.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #36,479 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « machination »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around machination (IPA \ma.ʃi.na.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #36,479 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Intrigue, menée secrète pour faire réussir quelque mauvais dessein, quelque complot, pour nuire à quelqu’un, pour le perdre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for machination, with forms such as "amchination", "macchination", and "machhination". 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. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 machination, spelled M-A-C-H-I-N-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Intrigue, menée secrète pour faire réussir quelque mauvais dessein, quelque complot, pour nuire à quelqu’un, pour le perdre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how machination appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…]; ces machinations avaient eu pour principal ouvrier un juge d'instruction, nommé Bertulus, dont le souvenir ne fait guère honneur à la magistrature.
Ah ! Elle avait été bien ourdie la machination du docteur de La Pommerais ! Il est bien connu que la civilisation ne tend nullement à faire disparaitre la délinquance mais bien à la faire évoluer.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amchination
- macchination
- machhination
- machiantion
- machinaiton
- machinatino
- machinationn
- machinatoin
- machinattion
- machinnation
- machintaion
- machniation
- macihnation
- mahcination
- mcahination
- mmachination
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of machination - 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).