triangulation
\tʁi.jɑ̃.ɡy.la.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“triangulation” has 19 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #47,660. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,660
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 19
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de faire les opérations trigonométriques nécessaires pour lever le plan d’un terrain ou résultat de cette action.
Corpus desk
Index FR-triangulation · triangulation · French
triangulation · rank #47,660 · 19 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,660
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 19 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH traçage
Nearest frequency peer: traçage (-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 « triangulation »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- transhumance
transhumance
52,344 corpus weight
- transiger
transiger
52,343 corpus weight
- traçage
traçage
52,342 corpus weight
- triangulati…
triangulation
52,341 corpus weight
- tumultueux
tumultueux
52,339 corpus weight
- turkey
turkey
52,338 corpus weight
What this shows « triangulation » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | triangulation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁi.jɑ̃.ɡy.la.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #47,660 |
| Misspellings tracked | 19 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « triangulation »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 19 spelling variants around triangulation (IPA \tʁi.jɑ̃.ɡy.la.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #47,660 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Action de faire les opérations trigonométriques nécessaires pour lever le plan d’un terrain ou résultat de cette action.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 19 likely wrong-spelling variants for triangulation, with forms such as "rtiangulation", "tirangulation", and "traingulation". 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. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is triangulation, spelled T-R-I-A-N-G-U-L-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action de faire les opérations trigonométriques nécessaires pour lever le plan d’un terrain ou résultat de cette action.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how triangulation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’opération géodésique qu’allait entreprendre la commission était, on le sait, un travail de triangulation ayant pour but la mesure d’un arc de méridien.
Une fois la triangulation, l’arpentage et la levée des plans achevés, chaque propriété est cadastrée, c'est-à-dire que les terres qui la composent sont classées d'après leur qualité, ce qui n'est pas exempt de difficultés sérieuses.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- rtiangulation
- tirangulation
- traingulation
- triagnulation
- trianggulation
- triangluation
- triangualtion
- triangulaiton
- triangulatino
- triangulationn
- triangulatoin
- triangulattion
- triangullation
- triangultaion
- trianngulation
- trianuglation
- trinagulation
- trriangulation
- ttriangulation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of triangulation - 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 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (19 here; floor ≥5).