spoliation
\spɔ.lja.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“spoliation” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,630. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,630
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de spolier, de déposséder par violence ou par fraude.
Corpus desk
Index FR-spoliation · spoliation · French
spoliation · rank #42,630 · 14 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,630
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH spiritisme
Nearest frequency peer: spiritisme (-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 « spoliation »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- souillée
souillée
57,374 corpus weight
- spas
spas
57,373 corpus weight
- spiritisme
spiritisme
57,372 corpus weight
- spoliation
spoliation
57,371 corpus weight
- sporadiques
sporadiques
57,370 corpus weight
- Staps
Staps
57,369 corpus weight
What this shows « spoliation » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | spoliation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \spɔ.lja.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #42,630 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « spoliation »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around spoliation (IPA \spɔ.lja.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #42,630 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Action de spolier, de déposséder par violence ou par fraude.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for spoliation, with forms such as "psoliation", "sopliation", and "sploiation". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 spoliation, spelled S-P-O-L-I-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action de spolier, de déposséder par violence ou par fraude.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how spoliation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
D’ailleurs, n’était-il pas permis à des Suisses de conserver du ressentiment pour l’invasion française de 1798, pour les spoliations qui l’accompagnèrent, et les épouvantables dévastations qui en furent la suite?
Il y a des gens qui pensent que la spoliation perd toute son immoralité pourvu qu’elle soit légale. Quant à moi, je ne saurais imaginer une circonstance plus aggravante. Quoi qu’il en soit, ce qui est certain, c’est que les résultats économiques sont les mêmes.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- psoliation
- sopliation
- sploiation
- spoilation
- spolaition
- spoliaiton
- spoliatino
- spoliationn
- spoliatoin
- spoliattion
- spolitaion
- spolliation
- sppoliation
- sspoliation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of spoliation - 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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