punition
\py.ni.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“punition” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,605. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,605
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de punir, d’infliger une correction à quelqu’un.
Corpus desk
Index FR-punition · punition · French
punition · rank #8,605 · 11 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,605
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH qualifications
Nearest frequency peer: qualifications (+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 « punition »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- poètes
poètes
91,399 corpus weight
- précieuse
précieuse
91,398 corpus weight
- punition
punition
91,396 corpus weight
- qualificati…
qualifications
91,395 corpus weight
- ratio
ratio
91,394 corpus weight
- recensement
recensement
91,393 corpus weight
What this shows « punition » 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 | punition |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \py.ni.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #8,605 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « punition »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around punition (IPA \py.ni.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,605 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for punition, with forms such as "pnuition", "ppunition", and "puintion". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "punitive", "punitions", "position", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is punition, spelled P-U-N-I-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action de punir, d’infliger une correction à quelqu’un.
- 2Châtiment ; peine que l’on fait subir pour quelque faute ou quelque crime.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how punition appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La punition des crimes et des délits appartient aux juges criminels.
Dans la plupart des cas, je crois que l’exemple du mal serait moins dangereux sans le soulignement de la punition. Celle-ci ne garantit pas l’avenir, elle n’intimide que les inoffensifs, tandis qu’elle donne de l’intérêt au mal. Infailliblement les enfants sont fiers d’un camarade coupable d’une action « à suite répressive ».
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pnuition
- ppunition
- puintion
- puniiton
- punitino
- punitionn
- punitoin
- punittion
- punnition
- puntiion
- upnition
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of punition - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).