perforations
\pɛʁ.fɔ.ʁa.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“perforations” has 18 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,267. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,267
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de perforation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-perforations · perforations · French
perforations · rank #49,267 · 18 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #49,267
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH perdrai
Nearest frequency peer: perdrai (-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 « perforations »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- peabody
peabody
50,737 corpus weight
- pencha
pencha
50,736 corpus weight
- perdrai
perdrai
50,735 corpus weight
- perforations
perforations
50,734 corpus weight
- permettrais
permettrais
50,733 corpus weight
- peupler
peupler
50,732 corpus weight
What this shows « perforations » 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 | perforations |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.fɔ.ʁa.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #49,267 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « perforations »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around perforations (IPA \pɛʁ.fɔ.ʁa.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #49,267 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de perforation.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for perforations, with forms such as "eprforations", "pefrorations", and "perfforations". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "perforation", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 perforations, spelled P-E-R-F-O-R-A-T-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de perforation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how perforations appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La morsure du loup laisse des perforations plus larges , moins « chirurgicales ».
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eprforations
- pefrorations
- perfforations
- perfoartions
- perforaitons
- perforatinos
- perforationns
- perforationss
- perforatiosn
- perforatoins
- perforattions
- perforrations
- perfortaions
- perfroations
- perofrations
- perrforations
- pperforations
- preforations
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of perforations - 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 "perforations", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).