pigmentation
\piɡ.mɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“pigmentation” has 18 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #47,516. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,516
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Processus par lequel des pigments biologiques se déposent dans un tissu, ainsi que l’état de coloration qui en résulte, notamment pour la peau, les cheveux ou l’iris.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pigmentation · pigmentation · French
pigmentation · rank #47,516 · 18 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,516
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH picarde
Nearest frequency peer: picarde (-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 « pigmentation »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Peuls
Peuls
52,488 corpus weight
- pew
pew
52,487 corpus weight
- picarde
picarde
52,486 corpus weight
- pigmentation
pigmentation
52,485 corpus weight
- pinson
pinson
52,484 corpus weight
- planant
planant
52,483 corpus weight
What this shows « pigmentation » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pigmentation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \piɡ.mɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #47,516 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pigmentation »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around pigmentation (IPA \piɡ.mɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #47,516 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Processus par lequel des pigments biologiques se déposent dans un tissu, ainsi que l’état de coloration qui en résulte, notamment pour la peau, les cheveux ou l’iris.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for pigmentation, with forms such as "ipgmentation", "pgimentation", and "pigemntation". 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. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 pigmentation, spelled P-I-G-M-E-N-T-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Processus par lequel des pigments biologiques se déposent dans un tissu, ainsi que l’état de coloration qui en résulte, notamment pour la peau, les cheveux ou l’iris.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pigmentation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’exposition au soleil tend à foncer la pigmentation de l’iris
Bien des animaux sont pourvus de dispositifs qui associent des pigmentations et des structures à effets optiques pour agir selon le milieu : caméléon, divers crustacés et batraciens, nombreux poissons.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ipgmentation
- pgimentation
- pigemntation
- piggmentation
- pigmenattion
- pigmenntation
- pigmentaiton
- pigmentatino
- pigmentationn
- pigmentatoin
- pigmentattion
- pigmenttaion
- pigmenttation
- pigmetnation
- pigmmentation
- pigmnetation
- pimgentation
- ppigmentation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pigmentation - 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 (18 here; floor ≥5).