mentions
\mɑ̃.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“mentions” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,864. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,864
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de mention.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mentions · mentions · French
mentions · rank #7,864 · 12 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,864
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH maudit
Nearest frequency peer: maudit (-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 « mentions »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- marines
marines
92,140 corpus weight
- Martinique
Martinique
92,139 corpus weight
- maudit
maudit
92,138 corpus weight
- mentions
mentions
92,137 corpus weight
- Mercure
Mercure
92,136 corpus weight
- mythique
mythique
92,135 corpus weight
What this shows « mentions » 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 | mentions |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɑ̃.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #7,864 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « mentions »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around mentions (IPA \mɑ̃.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,864 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de mention.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for mentions, with forms such as "emntions", "menitons", and "menntions". 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. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "menton", "mettons", "motions", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 mentions, spelled M-E-N-T-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de mention.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mentions appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le trentenaire, 22 mentions au casier, a été reconvoqué quelques jours plus tard, en attente des résultats des tests sanguins.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emntions
- menitons
- menntions
- mentinos
- mentionns
- mentionss
- mentiosn
- mentoins
- menttions
- metnions
- mmentions
- mnetions
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mentions - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "mentions", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (12 here; floor ≥5).