narration
\na.ʁa.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“narration” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,204. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,204
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Récit, exposé de faits dans un ouvrage littéraire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-narration · narration · French
narration · rank #12,204 · 11 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,204
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH méridionale
Nearest frequency peer: méridionale (-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 « narration »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- MRC
MRC
87,800 corpus weight
- médiévale
médiévale
87,799 corpus weight
- méridionale
méridionale
87,798 corpus weight
- narration
narration
87,797 corpus weight
- ninja
ninja
87,796 corpus weight
- nées
nées
87,795 corpus weight
What this shows « narration » 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 | narration |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \na.ʁa.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #12,204 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « narration »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around narration (IPA \na.ʁa.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,204 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for narration, with forms such as "anrration", "narartion", and "naration". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "natation", "narrative", "narratif", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is narration, spelled N-A-R-R-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Récit, exposé de faits dans un ouvrage littéraire.
- 2(Rhétorique antique) Partie du discours où l’orateur raconte, expose, développe le fait.
- 3Exercice scolaire où l’élève doit développer un récit sur un thème donné.
- 4Récit fait en conversation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how narration appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous sommes presque resté dans le doute ; sans l’impérieuse exigence de la narration, nous regretterions d’avoir placé en si horrible lieu l’explosion du récit qu’on va lire.
C’est en effet parfois contre-productif de se jeter à corps perdu dans la narration ou de se lancer trop vite dans l’écriture.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- anrration
- narartion
- naration
- narraiton
- narratino
- narrationn
- narratoin
- narrattion
- narrtaion
- nnarration
- nraration
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of narration - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).