privation
\pʁi.va.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“privation” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,247. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,247
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Perte, absence, manque d’un bien ou d’un avantage qu’on avait, ou qu’on devait ou qu’on pouvait avoir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-privation · privation · French
privation · rank #20,247 · 13 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,247
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pride
Nearest frequency peer: pride (-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 « privation »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pouf
pouf
79,757 corpus weight
- poussette
poussette
79,756 corpus weight
- pride
pride
79,755 corpus weight
- privation
privation
79,754 corpus weight
- prouvant
prouvant
79,753 corpus weight
- présentaient
présentaient
79,752 corpus weight
What this shows « privation » 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 | privation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁi.va.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #20,247 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « privation »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around privation (IPA \pʁi.va.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,247 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for privation, with forms such as "pirvation", "pprivation", and "priavtion". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "probation", "privatisé", "privations", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 privation, spelled P-R-I-V-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Perte, absence, manque d’un bien ou d’un avantage qu’on avait, ou qu’on devait ou qu’on pouvait avoir.
- 2Manque de beaucoup de choses nécessaires à la vie.
- 3Action de se priver volontairement, de s’abstenir de quelque chose dont on pourrait jouir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how privation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La privation de la vue, de l’ouïe.
C’est un homme qui est dans la privation de toutes choses.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pirvation
- pprivation
- priavtion
- privaiton
- privatino
- privationn
- privatoin
- privattion
- privtaion
- privvation
- prrivation
- prviation
- rpivation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of privation - 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 "privation", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (13 here; floor ≥5).