vacation
\va.ka.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“vacation” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,713. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,713
- frequency rank, French
- 148,117
- “V” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Durée de travail quotidien consacrée par règlement de justice ou d’administration publique à une affaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vacation · vacation · French
vacation · rank #43,713 · 11 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,713
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 148,117
- PHOTO-FINISH unionistes
Nearest frequency peer: unionistes (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “vacation”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- turgot
turgot
56,291 corpus weight
- typographiq…
typographiques
56,290 corpus weight
- unionistes
unionistes
56,289 corpus weight
- vacation
vacation
56,288 corpus weight
- Varela
Varela
56,287 corpus weight
- venions
venions
56,286 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “vacation” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | vacation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \va.ka.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #43,713 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “vacation” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around vacation (IPA \va.ka.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #43,713 among 148,117 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for vacation, with forms such as "avcation", "vaaction", and "vacaiton". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "vocation", "votation", "variation", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is vacation, spelled V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Durée de travail quotidien consacrée par règlement de justice ou d’administration publique à une affaire.
- 2Se dit de même des salaires, des honoraires qu’on paie aux gens d’affaires, aux gens de loi, aux membres d’un jury d’examen, etc.
- 3Cessation des séances des gens de justice.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vacation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y a eu dans cette affaire trois vacations d’experts.
Le rapport de ce procès a duré tant de vacations.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- avcation
- vaaction
- vacaiton
- vacatino
- vacationn
- vacatoin
- vacattion
- vaccation
- vactaion
- vcaation
- vvacation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of vacation - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "vacation", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.