positionnent
\po.zi.sjɔn\
The verdict
“positionnent” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #46,361. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,361
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de positionner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-positionnent · positionnent · French
positionnent · rank #46,361 · 16 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,361
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH polluées
Nearest frequency peer: polluées (-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 « positionnent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Polisario
Polisario
53,643 corpus weight
- pollinisati…
pollinisation
53,642 corpus weight
- polluées
polluées
53,641 corpus weight
- positionnent
positionnent
53,640 corpus weight
- posthumes
posthumes
53,639 corpus weight
- potiron
potiron
53,638 corpus weight
What this shows « positionnent » 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 | positionnent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \po.zi.sjɔn\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #46,361 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « positionnent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around positionnent (IPA \po.zi.sjɔn\), averb. Corpus frequency is #46,361 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for positionnent, with forms such as "opsitionnent", "poistionnent", and "posiitonnent". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "positionner", "positionnés", "positionné", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is positionnent, spelled P-O-S-I-T-I-O-N-N-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de positionner.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de positionner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how positionnent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Peur de perdre les symboles — logement, automobile, matériel hifi… — qui, dans une société d’ultraconsommation, d’ultravisibilité, d’ultrarelativité, d’ultrarivalité, façonnent l’identité et positionnent dans la hiérarchie sociale.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opsitionnent
- poistionnent
- posiitonnent
- positinonent
- positionennt
- positionent
- positionnennt
- positionnentt
- positionnetn
- positionnnet
- positoinnent
- posittionnent
- possitionnent
- postiionnent
- ppositionnent
- psoitionnent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of positionnent - 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
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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 (16 here; floor ≥5).