vocation
\vɔ.ka.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“vocation” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,454. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,454
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mouvement intérieur ressenti comme un appel de Dieu à se consacrer à son service.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vocation · vocation · French
vocation · rank #4,454 · 11 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,454
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH utilité
Nearest frequency peer: utilité (-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 « vocation »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- universel
universel
95,550 corpus weight
- utiles
utiles
95,549 corpus weight
- utilité
utilité
95,548 corpus weight
- vocation
vocation
95,547 corpus weight
- voisine
voisine
95,546 corpus weight
- vs
vs
95,545 corpus weight
What this shows « vocation » 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 | vocation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vɔ.ka.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #4,454 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « vocation »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around vocation (IPA \vɔ.ka.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,454 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for vocation, with forms such as "ovcation", "vcoation", and "voaction". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "votation", "vocations", "vacation", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is vocation, spelled V-O-C-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Mouvement intérieur ressenti comme un appel de Dieu à se consacrer à son service.
- 2Inclination que l’on ressent pour un état.
- 3Disposition, talent.
- 4Fonction supérieure que l'on croit devoir remplir pour des raisons morales ou transcendantes.
- 5But, utilité, fonction, raison d'être.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vocation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
De là vint l’usage, pour les matrones et les jeunes filles nobles, de prendre le voile et de se réfugier dans les couvents, non pas parce qu’elles y étaient appelées par la vocation, mais seulement pour préserver leur honneur de la méchanceté sans frein de l’homme.
J’ai également oublié de dire qu’au début de notre entretien il m’a demandé : « Pourquoi n’entrez-vous pas dans les ordres ? Comment se fait-il que vous n’ayez pas quitté le monde ? » Je lui dis qu’on n’entre pas dans les ordres sans vocation. « Précisément, dit-il alors, je ne comprends pas qu’avec votre vocation chrétienne vous n’alliez pas dans un mona…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ovcation
- vcoation
- voaction
- vocaiton
- vocatino
- vocationn
- vocatoin
- vocattion
- voccation
- voctaion
- vvocation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of vocation - 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
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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).