protestation
\pʁɔ.tɛs.ta.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“protestation” has 18 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,212. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,212
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Déclaration solennelle que quelqu’un fait de ses dispositions, de sa volonté ; promesse formelle, assurance positive.
Corpus desk
Index FR-protestation · protestation · French
protestation · rank #10,212 · 18 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,212
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH présidentiel
Nearest frequency peer: présidentiel (+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 « protestation »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pipi
pipi
89,793 corpus weight
- poivre
poivre
89,792 corpus weight
- politicien
politicien
89,791 corpus weight
- protestation
protestation
89,789 corpus weight
- présidentiel
présidentiel
89,788 corpus weight
- puissantes
puissantes
89,785 corpus weight
What this shows « protestation » 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 | protestation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.tɛs.ta.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #10,212 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « protestation »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around protestation (IPA \pʁɔ.tɛs.ta.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,212 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for protestation, with forms such as "portestation", "pprotestation", and "proetstation". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "protestations", "prestation", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is protestation, spelled P-R-O-T-E-S-T-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Déclaration solennelle que quelqu’un fait de ses dispositions, de sa volonté ; promesse formelle, assurance positive.
- 2Déclaration en forme par laquelle on réclame contre quelque chose.
- 3Réclamation, dénégation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how protestation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les deux chevaliers s'étant donc accordés avec un égal plaisir à se reconnaître frères d'armes , ils se séparèrent pour ce moment, après mille protestations d’amitié.
Si la rage et la douleur doivent torturer une âme, c’est celle de l’amant qui reçoit sous un nom qui n’est pas le sien des protestations d’amour qui s’adressent à son heureux rival.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- portestation
- pprotestation
- proetstation
- protesattion
- protesstation
- protestaiton
- protestatino
- protestationn
- protestatoin
- protestattion
- protesttaion
- protesttation
- protetsation
- protsetation
- prottestation
- prrotestation
- prtoestation
- rpotestation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of protestation - 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).