transportation
\tʁɑ̃s.pɔʁ.ta.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“transportation” has 22 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,235. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,235
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 22
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de transporter outre-mer certains condamnés.
Corpus desk
Index FR-transportation · transportation · French
transportation · rank #44,235 · 22 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,235
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 22 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH transmettra
Nearest frequency peer: transmettra (-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 « transportation »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- transfigura…
transfiguration
55,768 corpus weight
- transmettra
transmettra
55,767 corpus weight
- transportat…
transportation
55,766 corpus weight
- traumatiques
traumatiques
55,765 corpus weight
- travestis
travestis
55,764 corpus weight
- tremblez
tremblez
55,763 corpus weight
What this shows « transportation » 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 | transportation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁɑ̃s.pɔʁ.ta.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #44,235 |
| Misspellings tracked | 22 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « transportation »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 22 spelling variants around transportation (IPA \tʁɑ̃s.pɔʁ.ta.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #44,235 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Action de transporter outre-mer certains condamnés.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 22 likely wrong-spelling variants for transportation, with forms such as "rtansportation", "tarnsportation", and "trannsportation". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "transpiration", "transformation", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is transportation, spelled T-R-A-N-S-P-O-R-T-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action de transporter outre-mer certains condamnés.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how transportation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nicolas Prévôt avait été inculpé de récidive en faits de vagabondage et de mendicité. Le directeur du jury d'accusation de Neuchatel saisi, avait renvoyé le prévenu au tribunal criminel du département de la Seine-Inférieure, pour qu'il appliquât d'office la peine de la transportation prononcée par la loi du 24 vendémiaire an 2.
Tous les individus actuellement détenus à Belle-Île, et dont la transportation a été ordonnée en vertu du décret du 27 juin 1848, par suite des décisions des commissions instituées par le pouvoir exécutif, seront transférés en Algérie, qu’elle qu’ait été l’époque de leur arrestation.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- rtansportation
- tarnsportation
- trannsportation
- tranpsortation
- transoprtation
- transporattion
- transporrtation
- transportaiton
- transportatino
- transportationn
- transportatoin
- transportattion
- transporttaion
- transporttation
- transpotration
- transpportation
- transprotation
- transsportation
- trasnportation
- trnasportation
- trransportation
- ttransportation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of transportation - 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 14 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (22 here; floor ≥5).