relations
\ʁə.la.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“relations” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,011. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,011
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de relation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-relations · relations · French
relations · rank #1,011 · 13 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,011
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH radio
Nearest frequency peer: radio (-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 « relations »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- prochain
prochain
98,993 corpus weight
- projets
projets
98,992 corpus weight
- radio
radio
98,991 corpus weight
- relations
relations
98,990 corpus weight
- table
table
98,988 corpus weight
- vaut
vaut
98,987 corpus weight
What this shows « relations » 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 | relations |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁə.la.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #1,011 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « relations »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around relations (IPA \ʁə.la.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,011 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de relation.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for relations, with forms such as "erlations", "realtions", and "relaitons". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "relatives", "religions", "rotations", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 relations, spelled R-E-L-A-T-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de relation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how relations appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais tandis qu’à Moscou je ne voyais se lever d’autres souvenirs historiques que de conquête napoléonienne, vain effort suivi tout aussitôt de désastre, à Leningrad maints édifices me rappellent ce qu’ont pu avoir de plus cordial et de plus fécondant les relations intellectuelles entre la Russie et la France.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erlations
- realtions
- relaitons
- relatinos
- relationns
- relationss
- relatiosn
- relatoins
- relattions
- rellations
- reltaions
- rleations
- rrelations
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of relations - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).