négation
\ne.ɡa.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“négation” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,688. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,688
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Affirmation du contraire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-negation · négation · French
négation · rank #16,688 · 12 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,688
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH nudité
Nearest frequency peer: nudité (-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 « négation »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Nietzsche
Nietzsche
83,316 corpus weight
- Niort
Niort
83,315 corpus weight
- nudité
nudité
83,314 corpus weight
- négation
négation
83,313 corpus weight
- opaque
opaque
83,312 corpus weight
- ordure
ordure
83,311 corpus weight
What this shows « négation » 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 | négation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ne.ɡa.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #16,688 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « négation »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around négation (IPA \ne.ɡa.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,688 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for négation, with forms such as "negation", "ngéation", and "nnégation". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "négative", "notation", "nation", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is négation, spelled N-É-G-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Affirmation du contraire.
- 2Mots qui servent à nier, comme « ne … pas, ne … point, ne … mie », etc.
- 3Permutation entre vrai et faux : négation logique.
- 4Réduction à néant, annihilation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how négation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Soit qu’il fût convaincu, soit, ce qui est plus probable, que la négation lui parût difficile vis-à-vis d’un homme comme le chevalier Lenoir, le docteur se tut.
Alors les retournant et les soupesant : « Charcot, me dit-il, y a-t-il de l’or ou de l’argent là-dedans ? » et devant ma négation, il me les rendit avec mépris.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- negation
- ngéation
- nnégation
- néagtion
- négaiton
- négatino
- négationn
- négatoin
- négattion
- néggation
- négtaion
- éngation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of négation - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).