privations
\pʁi.va.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“privations” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,485. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,485
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de privation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-privations · privations · French
privations · rank #38,485 · 15 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #38,485
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pressante
Nearest frequency peer: pressante (-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 « privations »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- poix
poix
61,519 corpus weight
- ppm
ppm
61,518 corpus weight
- pressante
pressante
61,517 corpus weight
- privations
privations
61,516 corpus weight
- product
product
61,515 corpus weight
- profiteront
profiteront
61,514 corpus weight
What this shows « privations » 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 | privations |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁi.va.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #38,485 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « privations »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around privations (IPA \pʁi.va.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #38,485 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de privation.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for privations, with forms such as "pirvations", "pprivations", and "priavtions". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "privation", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is privations, spelled P-R-I-V-A-T-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de privation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how privations appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Oui, madame de Maufrigneuse restait un ange que les corruptions de la terre n’atteignaient pas : un ange aux Variétés devant ces farces à demi obscènes et populacières qui la faisaient rire, un ange au milieu du feu croisé des délicieuses plaisanteries et des chroniques scandaleuses qui se disaient aux parties fines, un ange pâmée au Vaudeville en loge gr…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pirvations
- pprivations
- priavtions
- privaitons
- privatinos
- privationns
- privationss
- privatiosn
- privatoins
- privattions
- privtaions
- privvations
- prrivations
- prviations
- rpivations
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of privations - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).