motions
\mɔ.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“motions” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,452. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,452
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de motion.
Corpus desk
Index FR-motions · motions · French
motions · rank #29,452 · 10 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,452
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH morose
Nearest frequency peer: morose (-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 « motions »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- modernisme
modernisme
70,552 corpus weight
- montures
montures
70,551 corpus weight
- morose
morose
70,550 corpus weight
- motions
motions
70,549 corpus weight
- moue
moue
70,548 corpus weight
- mouillage
mouillage
70,547 corpus weight
What this shows « motions » 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 | motions |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɔ.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #29,452 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « motions »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around motions (IPA \mɔ.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,452 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de motion.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for motions, with forms such as "mmotions", "moitons", and "motinos". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "motos", "motors", "mutins", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 motions, spelled M-O-T-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de motion.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how motions appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le péché que j’ai fait hier ou celui que je ferai demain, Dieu ne m’a pas vu, ni ne me verra, il me voit le produire ; il me voit néanter les motions prévenantes de sa grâce.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mmotions
- moitons
- motinos
- motionns
- motionss
- motiosn
- motoins
- mottions
- mtoions
- omtions
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of motions - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).