utilisation
\y.ti.li.za.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“utilisation” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,215. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,215
- frequency rank, French
- 456
- “U” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fait ou manière d’utiliser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-utilisation · utilisation · French
utilisation · rank #1,215 · 15 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-COMMON #1,215
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 456
- PHOTO-FINISH voulais
Nearest frequency peer: voulais (+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 « utilisation »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- science
science
98,790 corpus weight
- utilisation
utilisation
98,786 corpus weight
- voulais
voulais
98,785 corpus weight
- étudiants
étudiants
98,784 corpus weight
- absence
absence
98,783 corpus weight
- Amérique
Amérique
98,782 corpus weight
What this shows « utilisation » 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 | utilisation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \y.ti.li.za.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #1,215 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « utilisation »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around utilisation (IPA \y.ti.li.za.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,215 among 456 “U” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Fait ou manière d’utiliser.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for utilisation, with forms such as "tuilisation", "uitlisation", and "utiilsation". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "utilisations", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is utilisation, spelled U-T-I-L-I-S-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Fait ou manière d’utiliser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how utilisation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’utilisation des pesticides a beaucoup augmenté dans les pays en développement à la fin des années 60 et pendant les années 70, à mesure que l’agriculture se modernisait.
L’utilisation du pois dans le Croissant fertile est attestée par des données archéologiques datant de 8000 av. J.-C.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- tuilisation
- uitlisation
- utiilsation
- utiliastion
- utilisaiton
- utilisatino
- utilisationn
- utilisatoin
- utilisattion
- utilissation
- utilistaion
- utillisation
- utilsiation
- utliisation
- uttilisation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of utilisation - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "utilisation", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).