pulsation

\pyl.sa.sjɔ̃\

/\pyl.sa.sjɔ̃\/ noun

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The verdict

“pulsation” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,619. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#43,619
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Battement du cœur, d’une artère ou de tout autre organe naturellement contractile.

Corpus desk

Index FR-pulsation · pulsation · French

pulsation · rank #43,619 · 13 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #43,619
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH prônée

Nearest frequency peer: prônée (-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 « pulsation »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « pulsation » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

pulsation vs pulsion
78% similar
pulsation vs pulsations
90% similar
pulsation vs passation
78% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for pulsation
PropertyValue
Headwordpulsation
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pyl.sa.sjɔ̃\
Letters9
Frequency rank#43,619
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pulsation »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).pulsationse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « prônée » (#43,618), « puérile » (#43,620), « prêches » (#43,617). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « pulsation » est au #43,619. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around pulsation (IPA \pyl.sa.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #43,619 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 pulsation, with forms such as "plusation", "ppulsation", and "pulastion". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "pulsion", "pulsations", "passation", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is pulsation, spelled P-U-L-S-A-T-I-O-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Battement du cœur, d’une artère ou de tout autre organe naturellement contractile.
  2. 2
    Battement régulier marquant le début de chaque temps, qui peut être rendu perceptible par l'utilisation d'un métronome ou être intériorisée par le musicien, et dont la vitesse détermine le tempo d’une pièce.
  3. 3
    Changement de luminosité d’une étoile variable.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how pulsation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. …le bruit des 650 CV, qui emplit les oreilles, frappe le creux de l'estomac, est comme les pulsations du cœur que l'on se plaît à entendre à la suite d'un effort athlétique.
  2. Pour travailler sur une servocommande de gouverne de direction de 125 kg à 21 m de haut, Hubert Protin était équipé d'un cardiofréquencemètre, ses pulsations sont passées de 70 au sol à 140 à la hauteur voulue en raison du stress.

This word in other languages

pulsation(English)pulsação(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • plusation
  • ppulsation
  • pulastion
  • pullsation
  • pulsaiton
  • pulsatino
  • pulsationn
  • pulsatoin
  • pulsattion
  • pulssation
  • pulstaion
  • puslation
  • uplsation

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pulsation - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

plusation2ppulsation1pulastion2pullsation1pulsaiton2pulsatino2pulsationn1pulsatoin2
Edit distance from "pulsation"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pulsation"?
"pulsation" is spelled P-U-L-S-A-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \pyl.sa.sjɔ̃\.
What does "pulsation" mean?
As a noun, "pulsation" means: Battement du cœur, d’une artère ou de tout autre organe naturellement contractile.
What words are commonly confused with "pulsation"?
"pulsation" is commonly confused with "pulsion", "pulsations", "passation". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "pulsation"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pulsation" is \pyl.sa.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pulsation" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "pulsation", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

périssent#43,622prédisent#43,614recordman#43,629regardées#43,630

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

plantent13 variantsrestituée13 variantspianistes13 variantsrevêtent13 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list