ovulation
\ɔ.vy.la.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“ovulation” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,261. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,261
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chute de l’ovule hors de la vésicule ovarienne (follicule mûr), et, par suite, hors de l’ovaire jusqu’au pavillon de l’oviducte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ovulation · ovulation · French
ovulation · rank #49,261 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #49,261
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH oseront
Nearest frequency peer: oseront (-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 « ovulation »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- optionnelle
optionnelle
50,743 corpus weight
- osaient
osaient
50,742 corpus weight
- oseront
oseront
50,741 corpus weight
- ovulation
ovulation
50,740 corpus weight
- palaces
palaces
50,739 corpus weight
- Parrish
Parrish
50,738 corpus weight
What this shows « ovulation » 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 | ovulation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.vy.la.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #49,261 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ovulation »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around ovulation (IPA \ɔ.vy.la.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #49,261 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Chute de l’ovule hors de la vésicule ovarienne (follicule mûr), et, par suite, hors de l’ovaire jusqu’au pavillon de l’oviducte.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for ovulation, with forms such as "ouvlation", "ovluation", and "ovualtion". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "ovation", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists 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 ovulation, spelled O-V-U-L-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Chute de l’ovule hors de la vésicule ovarienne (follicule mûr), et, par suite, hors de l’ovaire jusqu’au pavillon de l’oviducte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ovulation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’insémination intra-utérine intraconjugale en laboratoire ou cabinet médical, qui allie induction d’ovulation et préparation-lavage du sperme qui sera injecté dans l’utérus, lors d’une infertilité masculine ou féminine.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ouvlation
- ovluation
- ovualtion
- ovulaiton
- ovulatino
- ovulationn
- ovulatoin
- ovulattion
- ovullation
- ovultaion
- ovvulation
- voulation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ovulation - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).