protestations
\pʁɔ.tɛs.ta.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“protestations” has 20 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,038. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,038
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 20
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de protestation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-protestations · protestations · French
protestations · rank #13,038 · 20 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,038
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 20 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH presser
Nearest frequency peer: presser (-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 « protestations »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- prenais
prenais
86,966 corpus weight
- preneur
preneur
86,965 corpus weight
- presser
presser
86,964 corpus weight
- protestatio…
protestations
86,963 corpus weight
- préférences
préférences
86,962 corpus weight
- psycho
psycho
86,961 corpus weight
What this shows « protestations » 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 | protestations |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.tɛs.ta.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #13,038 |
| Misspellings tracked | 20 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « protestations »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 20 spelling variants around protestations (IPA \pʁɔ.tɛs.ta.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,038 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de protestation.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 20 likely wrong-spelling variants for protestations, with forms such as "portestations", "pprotestations", and "proetstations". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "prestations", "protestation", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is protestations, spelled P-R-O-T-E-S-T-A-T-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de protestation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how protestations appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les protestations des plumes célèbres, des grandes consciences ont été rarissimes.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- portestations
- pprotestations
- proetstations
- protesattions
- protesstations
- protestaitons
- protestatinos
- protestationns
- protestationss
- protestatiosn
- protestatoins
- protestattions
- protesttaions
- protesttations
- protetsations
- protsetations
- prottestations
- prrotestations
- prtoestations
- rpotestations
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of protestations - 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 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (20 here; floor ≥5).