modernisation
\mɔ.dɛʁ.ni.za.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“modernisation” has 19 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,197. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,197
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 19
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de moderniser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-modernisation · modernisation · French
modernisation · rank #9,197 · 19 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-COMMON #9,197
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 19 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH ministères
Nearest frequency peer: ministères (-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 « modernisation »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- massivement
massivement
90,807 corpus weight
- Matthew
Matthew
90,806 corpus weight
- ministères
ministères
90,805 corpus weight
- modernisati…
modernisation
90,804 corpus weight
- mondialisat…
mondialisation
90,803 corpus weight
- Mons
Mons
90,802 corpus weight
What this shows « modernisation » 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 | modernisation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɔ.dɛʁ.ni.za.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #9,197 |
| Misspellings tracked | 19 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « modernisation »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 19 spelling variants around modernisation (IPA \mɔ.dɛʁ.ni.za.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,197 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 19 likely wrong-spelling variants for modernisation, with forms such as "mdoernisation", "mmodernisation", and "moddernisation". 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, "modélisation", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is modernisation, spelled M-O-D-E-R-N-I-S-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action de moderniser.
- 2Action de moderniser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how modernisation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’auteur des Mémoires nous dit que partout il a modernisé la façon dont les mots étaient épelés sur le manuscrit original… nous ne partageons pas son avis sur la valeur que la modernisation de son orthographe [de Mlle Herschel] a pu ajouter à ses Souvenirs.
Un courant soviétologique plus spécifiquement politologique met l'accent sur des processus de changement politique sui generis qui semblent indiquer une orientation évolutionniste incompatible avec les postulats des théories de la modernisation.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mdoernisation
- mmodernisation
- moddernisation
- modenrisation
- moderinsation
- moderniastion
- modernisaiton
- modernisatino
- modernisationn
- modernisatoin
- modernisattion
- modernissation
- modernistaion
- modernnisation
- modernsiation
- moderrnisation
- modrenisation
- moedrnisation
- omdernisation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of modernisation - 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "modernisation"?
What does "modernisation" mean?
What words are commonly confused with "modernisation"?
How do you pronounce "modernisation"?
What language does "modernisation" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "modernisation", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (19 here; floor ≥5).