nations
\na.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“nations” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,745. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,745
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de nation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nations · nations · French
nations · rank #1,745 · 10 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,745
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH montant
Nearest frequency peer: montant (-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 « nations »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- lancer
lancer
98,259 corpus weight
- matériel
matériel
98,258 corpus weight
- montant
montant
98,257 corpus weight
- nations
nations
98,256 corpus weight
- nommé
nommé
98,255 corpus weight
- notes
notes
98,254 corpus weight
What this shows « nations » 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 | nations |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \na.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,745 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « nations »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around nations (IPA \na.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,745 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de nation.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for nations, with forms such as "antions", "naitons", and "natinos". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "notion", "notons", "notions", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is nations, spelled N-A-T-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de nation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how nations appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les équipées y sont des épopées, les vaincus provisoires des visionnaires providentiels et les destructions cumulées des épreuves nécessaires à ce qu’il est convenu d’appeler « le progrès européen du pays » ; un progrès qui devra tout à l’ardeur positiviste d’élites soucieuses de se « décastillaniser », de se rapprocher des nations modernes, de s’enrichir…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- antions
- naitons
- natinos
- nationns
- nationss
- natiosn
- natoins
- nattions
- nnations
- ntaions
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of nations - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "nations", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).