terrassement
\tɛ.ʁas.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“terrassement” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,047. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,047
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de terrasser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-terrassement · terrassement · French
terrassement · rank #40,047 · 15 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,047
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH temporalité
Nearest frequency peer: temporalité (-2 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 « terrassement »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- tapper
tapper
59,958 corpus weight
- Tardieu
Tardieu
59,957 corpus weight
- temporalité
temporalité
59,956 corpus weight
- terrassement
terrassement
59,954 corpus weight
- tesson
tesson
59,952 corpus weight
- testicule
testicule
59,951 corpus weight
What this shows « terrassement » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | terrassement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɛ.ʁas.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #40,047 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « terrassement »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around terrassement (IPA \tɛ.ʁas.mɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #40,047 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Action de terrasser.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for terrassement, with forms such as "etrrassement", "terarssement", and "terassement". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 terrassement, spelled T-E-R-R-A-S-S-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Action de terrasser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how terrassement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Suivront les travaux de gros œuvre : reprise en sous-œuvre, modification des murs porteurs, démolitions de planchers, terrassements, etc.
Le boulevard Malesherbes, qui abattait des hôtels superbes, dans les rues d’Anjou et de la Ville-l’Évêque, et qui nécessitait des travaux de terrassement considérables, devait être troué un des premiers.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etrrassement
- terarssement
- terassement
- terrasement
- terrasesment
- terrasseemnt
- terrassemennt
- terrassementt
- terrassemetn
- terrassemment
- terrassemnet
- terrassmeent
- terrsasement
- trerassement
- tterrassement
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of terrassement - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).