migration

Name: migration, French Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

\mi.ɡʁa.sjɔ̃\

/\mi.ɡʁa.sjɔ̃\/ noun

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“migration” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,516. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#9,516
frequency rank, French: 5,038
“M” headwords: 13
tracked misspellings: 1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de migrer d’un pays dans un autre pour s’y établir.

Corpus desk

Index FR-migration · migration · French

migration · rank #9,516 · 13 variants · 1 confusable

FREQ-COMMON #9,516
LEN-LONG 9 letters
VOW-4 4 vowels
CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
VAR-HIGH 13 variants
BOOK-DENSE 5,038
PHOTO-FINISH mignonne

Nearest frequency peer: mignonne (-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.

menacée

90,488
messi

90,487
mignonne

90,486
migration

90,485
mystères

90,484
métropolita…

90,482

What this shows « migration » 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).

migration vs migrations

90% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for migration
Property	Value
Headword	migration
Language	French
Part of speech	Noun
IPA	\mi.ɡʁa.sjɔ̃\
Letters	9
Frequency rank	#9,516
Misspellings tracked	13
Confusable pairs	1
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « migration »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.migrationse place ici:

#9,516

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « mignonne » (#9,515), « mystères » (#9,517), « messi » (#9,514). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « migration » est au #9,516. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around migration (IPA \mi.ɡʁa.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,516 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for migration, with forms such as "imgration", "mgiration", and "migartion". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "migrations", 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 its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is migration, spelled M-I-G-R-A-T-I-O-N.

Definition

1
Action de migrer d’un pays dans un autre pour s’y établir.
2
Voyage que font certaines espèces d’animaux.
3
Passage d'un état existant d’un système d’information ou d'une application vers une cible définie dans un projet ou un programme. Autrement dit, c’est changer de logiciel ou de machine, ce qui peut impliquer des traitements complexes des données déjà existantes.
4
Déplacement d'espèces chimiques, par agitation thermique aléatoire (mouvement brownien), sous un gradient de potentiel chimique, sous un gradient de potentiel électrostatique (électrophorèse), sous un gradient de pression (vent, chromatographie), sous l'effet de la pesanteur ou d'une force inertielle.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how migration appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

Si les problèmes posés par les " migrations provinciales sur la région parisienne sont bien connus - un million de provinciaux installés depuis 1945, - les motifs et la structure de ces mouvements le sont moins, les indications précises manquant trop souvent.
L'origine de cette espèce asiatique a été très discutée : suivant De Candolle [Augustin Pyrame deCandolle] et divers auteurs, elle serait originaire des pays caspiens et aurait suivi en Europe les migrations des tribus nomades des Zingaris.

This word in other languages

migration(English)migración(Español)Migration(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

imgration
mgiration
migartion
miggration
migraiton
migratino
migrationn
migratoin
migrattion
migrration
migrtaion
mirgation
mmigration

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of migration - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

Edit distance from "migration"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "migration"?

"migration" is spelled M-I-G-R-A-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \mi.ɡʁa.sjɔ̃\.

What does "migration" mean?

As a noun, "migration" means: Action de migrer d’un pays dans un autre pour s’y établir.

What words are commonly confused with "migration"?

"migration" is commonly confused with "migrations". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.

How do you pronounce "migration"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "migration" is \mi.ɡʁa.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "migration" come from?

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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "migration", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

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