testament
\tɛs.ta.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“testament” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,931. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,931
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Acte authentique par lequel on déclare ses dernières volontés.
Corpus desk
Index FR-testament · testament · French
testament · rank #5,931 · 14 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,931
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH suspendu
Nearest frequency peer: suspendu (-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 « testament »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- subventions
subventions
94,073 corpus weight
- surfaces
surfaces
94,072 corpus weight
- suspendu
suspendu
94,071 corpus weight
- testament
testament
94,070 corpus weight
- Texas
Texas
94,069 corpus weight
- tienne
tienne
94,068 corpus weight
What this shows « testament » 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 | testament |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɛs.ta.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #5,931 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « testament »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around testament (IPA \tɛs.ta.mɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,931 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for testament, with forms such as "etstament", "tesatment", and "tesstament". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "testent", "testaments", "tentaient", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is testament, spelled T-E-S-T-A-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Acte authentique par lequel on déclare ses dernières volontés.
- 2Conseils qu'on lègue à sa descendance.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how testament appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…], je m'empresse de t'annoncer qu'un certain monsieur Desperriers, natif de Digoin, département de l'Allier, France, vient de décéder, sans enfants, […], et qu'avant son décès, par testament rédigé en bonne et due forme, tu peux m'en croire, je l'ai minuté moi-même, il a institué sa légataire universelle une certaine demoiselle Adèle Desperriers, sa par…
Malade, il se retira chez sa sœur, Rosalie, veuve d'un comte de Creny, au petit château de Ménival, dans la commune de Lannoy-Cuillère, aux confins du pays de Bray et de la Picardie, où il fit son testament, laissant à ses proches le peu qui lui restait, et mourut le 26 janvier 1816.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etstament
- tesatment
- tesstament
- testaemnt
- testamennt
- testamentt
- testametn
- testamment
- testamnet
- testmaent
- testtament
- tetsament
- tsetament
- ttestament
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of testament - 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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
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