situations
\si.tɥa.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“situations” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,964. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,964
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de situation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-situations · situations · French
situations · rank #2,964 · 14 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,964
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sexy
Nearest frequency peer: sexy (-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 « situations »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- résoudre
résoudre
97,040 corpus weight
- réussite
réussite
97,039 corpus weight
- sexy
sexy
97,038 corpus weight
- situations
situations
97,037 corpus weight
- souris
souris
97,036 corpus weight
- termine
termine
97,034 corpus weight
What this shows « situations » 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 | situations |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \si.tɥa.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #2,964 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « situations »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around situations (IPA \si.tɥa.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,964 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de situation.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for situations, with forms such as "istuations", "sitautions", and "sittuations". 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, "stations", "Situation", "simulations", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 situations, spelled S-I-T-U-A-T-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de situation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how situations appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces quatre situations de départ — habituellement dans un fragment de pièce de théâtre il n’y en a qu’une — ne se relient pas sur un plan narratif.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- istuations
- sitautions
- sittuations
- situaitons
- situatinos
- situationns
- situationss
- situatiosn
- situatoins
- situattions
- situtaions
- siutations
- ssituations
- stiuations
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of situations - 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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).