respiration
\ʁɛs.pi.ʁa.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“respiration” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,147. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,147
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de respirer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-respiration · respiration · French
respiration · rank #8,147 · 16 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,147
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rentrant
Nearest frequency peer: rentrant (-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 « respiration »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- renard
renard
91,857 corpus weight
- renouvelabl…
renouvelables
91,856 corpus weight
- rentrant
rentrant
91,855 corpus weight
- respiration
respiration
91,854 corpus weight
- rideau
rideau
91,853 corpus weight
- Ross
Ross
91,851 corpus weight
What this shows « respiration » 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 | respiration |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɛs.pi.ʁa.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #8,147 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « respiration »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around respiration (IPA \ʁɛs.pi.ʁa.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,147 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for respiration, with forms such as "erspiration", "repsiration", and "resipration". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "respirations", "réparation", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is respiration, spelled R-E-S-P-I-R-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action de respirer.
- 2Ensemble des processus d’absorption du dioxygène et de rejet du dioxyde de carbone et d’eau chez les organismes aérobies.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how respiration appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’eau nécessaire à la respiration pénètre par l’une des ouvertures, est chassée par l’autre, grâce aux contractions du manteau, et, sortant avec rapidité, refoule pour ainsi dire en sens contraire l’animal, qui nage seulement à l’aide des mouvemens respiratoires.
L’aérage est une condition de première nécessité, car la respiration des ouvriers, la combustion des lumières et le tirage des coups de mine ne tarderaient pas à vicier l’air.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erspiration
- repsiration
- resipration
- respiartion
- respiraiton
- respiratino
- respirationn
- respiratoin
- respirattion
- respirration
- respirtaion
- resppiration
- respriation
- resspiration
- rrespiration
- rsepiration
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of respiration - 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 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
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