spéculation
\spe.ky.la.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“spéculation” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,065. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,065
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de spéculer, de réfléchir profondément ou longuement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-speculation · spéculation · French
spéculation · rank #12,065 · 17 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,065
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH spécialités
Nearest frequency peer: spécialités (-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 « spéculation »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
What this shows « spéculation » 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 | spéculation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \spe.ky.la.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #12,065 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « spéculation »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around spéculation (IPA \spe.ky.la.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,065 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for spéculation, with forms such as "pséculation", "spcéulation", and "speculation". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "spéculative", "spéculations", "spéculatif", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is spéculation, spelled S-P-É-C-U-L-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action de spéculer, de réfléchir profondément ou longuement.
- 2Hypothèse.
- 3Raisonnement, calculs, entreprises que l’on fait en matière de banque, de finance, de commerce, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how spéculation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Entre Confucius et Socrate, il y a plusieurs analogies qu’on a remarquées. Nés vers le même temps, ils ont eu même tendance pratique, même éloignement pour la spéculation.
Nous vous proposons de présenter ici […] certaines spéculations qui, dans leur ensemble, offriront une ébauche hypothétique, mais aussi peu fantaisiste que possible, de la façon dont iront les choses de ce monde au XXᵉ siècle.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pséculation
- spcéulation
- speculation
- sppéculation
- spécculation
- spécluation
- spécualtion
- spéculaiton
- spéculatino
- spéculationn
- spéculatoin
- spéculattion
- spécullation
- spécultaion
- spéuclation
- sspéculation
- sépculation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of spéculation - 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
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).