pulsions
\pyl.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“pulsions” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,455. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,455
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de pulsion.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pulsions · pulsions · French
pulsions · rank #16,455 · 12 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,455
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH publia
Nearest frequency peer: publia (-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 « pulsions »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- précurseur
précurseur
83,549 corpus weight
- prévoient
prévoient
83,548 corpus weight
- publia
publia
83,547 corpus weight
- pulsions
pulsions
83,546 corpus weight
- punch
punch
83,545 corpus weight
- Rachid
Rachid
83,544 corpus weight
What this shows « pulsions » 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 | pulsions |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pyl.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #16,455 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pulsions »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around pulsions (IPA \pyl.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,455 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de pulsion.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for pulsions, with forms such as "plusions", "ppulsions", and "pulisons". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "pulsion", "pensions", "passions", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 pulsions, spelled P-U-L-S-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de pulsion.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pulsions appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je n’ai pas l’intention, dans cette préface, de faire un cours sur Nietzsche, mais de rappeler avant tout que l’auteur du Gai Savoir nous invite à nous « vernatürlichen », à nous « renaturiser », à retrouver nos racines, nos pulsions et énergies viscérales, pour mieux nous porter vers nos potentialités ultimes, enthousiasmantes, voire même « démentielles ».
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- plusions
- ppulsions
- pulisons
- pullsions
- pulsinos
- pulsionns
- pulsionss
- pulsiosn
- pulsoins
- pulssions
- puslions
- uplsions
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pulsions - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).