ovation
\ɔ.va.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“ovation” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,115. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,115
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sorte de triomphe, où le triomphateur entrait dans la ville à pied ou à cheval et sacrifiait une brebis ; à la différence du grand triomphe, où le triomphateur était sur un char et sacrifiait un ta...
Corpus desk
Index FR-ovation · ovation · French
ovation · rank #26,115 · 9 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,115
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH oserait
Nearest frequency peer: oserait (-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 « ovation »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- octroie
octroie
73,890 corpus weight
- oculaires
oculaires
73,889 corpus weight
- oserait
oserait
73,887 corpus weight
- ovation
ovation
73,886 corpus weight
- pacifiqueme…
pacifiquement
73,884 corpus weight
- palliatifs
palliatifs
73,883 corpus weight
What this shows « ovation » 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 | ovation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.va.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #26,115 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ovation »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around ovation (IPA \ɔ.va.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #26,115 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for ovation, with forms such as "oavtion", "ovaiton", and "ovatino". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "ovulation", "option", "onction", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 ovation, spelled O-V-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Sorte de triomphe, où le triomphateur entrait dans la ville à pied ou à cheval et sacrifiait une brebis ; à la différence du grand triomphe, où le triomphateur était sur un char et sacrifiait un taureau.
- 2Acclamations, des marques bruyantes d’enthousiasme qui accueillent un orateur ou tout autre personnage auquel on rend honneur, que l’on fête.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ovation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hier les ovations des mineurs du Nord, aujourd'hui les acclamations des cultivateurs du Midi et des citoyens d'une ville, grande par son passé, ….
Nous avons décrit ces ovations des congrès, prolongées un quart d'heure entier et dont on se demande comment elles finissent? Car quelqu'un doit cesser le premier de battre des mains en cadence et quel est celui qui se le permet dans cet environnement de servilité?
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oavtion
- ovaiton
- ovatino
- ovationn
- ovatoin
- ovattion
- ovtaion
- ovvation
- voation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ovation - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).