perquisition
\pɛʁ.ki.zi.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“perquisition” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,111. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,111
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Recherche exacte que l’on fait de quelque chose, de quelque personne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-perquisition · perquisition · French
perquisition · rank #14,111 · 17 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #14,111
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pendre
Nearest frequency peer: pendre (-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 « perquisition »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- papy
papy
85,893 corpus weight
- partira
partira
85,892 corpus weight
- pendre
pendre
85,891 corpus weight
- perquisition
perquisition
85,890 corpus weight
- perturbatio…
perturbations
85,889 corpus weight
- plaider
plaider
85,888 corpus weight
What this shows « perquisition » 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 | perquisition |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.ki.zi.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #14,111 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « perquisition »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around perquisition (IPA \pɛʁ.ki.zi.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,111 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Recherche exacte que l’on fait de quelque chose, de quelque personne.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for perquisition, with forms such as "eprquisition", "peqruisition", and "perqiusition". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "perquisitions", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is perquisition, spelled P-E-R-Q-U-I-S-I-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Recherche exacte que l’on fait de quelque chose, de quelque personne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how perquisition appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Alors, malgré l’inutilité de sa première perquisition, il en recommença une seconde
Personne ne croit plus que les chrétiens se réfugiaient dans des carrières souterraines pour échapper aux perquisitions de la police ; les catacombes furent creusées, à très grands frais, par des communautés disposant d'importantes ressources.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eprquisition
- peqruisition
- perqiusition
- perqquisition
- perquiistion
- perquisiiton
- perquisitino
- perquisitionn
- perquisitoin
- perquisittion
- perquissition
- perquistiion
- perqusiition
- perrquisition
- peruqisition
- pperquisition
- prequisition
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of perquisition - 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 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).