national
\na.sjɔ.nal\
The verdict
“national” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #692. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #692
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui concerne toute une nation ; qui appartient à une nation ; qui est spécifique à une nation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-national · national · French
national · rank #692 · 11 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #692
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH montre
Nearest frequency peer: montre (-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 « national »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- joue
joue
99,312 corpus weight
- lequel
lequel
99,311 corpus weight
- montre
montre
99,310 corpus weight
- national
national
99,309 corpus weight
- particulier
particulier
99,308 corpus weight
- penser
penser
99,307 corpus weight
What this shows « national » 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 | national |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \na.sjɔ.nal\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #692 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « national »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around national (IPA \na.sjɔ.nal\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #692 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for national, with forms such as "antional", "naitonal", and "natinoal". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "nations", "nationale", "nationaux", and more, 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is national, spelled N-A-T-I-O-N-A-L.
Definition
- 1Qui concerne toute une nation ; qui appartient à une nation ; qui est spécifique à une nation.
- 2Patriotique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how national appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un dimanche après-midi, alors que j’étais de semaine, occupé au bureau des brigades à copier des signalements, un télégramme arriva de Lothiers, grosse agglomération située sur la route nationale, à mi-chemin entre Châteauroux et Argenton.
Qualités nationales.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- antional
- naitonal
- natinoal
- natioanl
- nationall
- nationla
- nationnal
- natoinal
- nattional
- nnational
- ntaional
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of national - 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
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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 (11 here; floor ≥5).