l’Office québécois de la langue française has excellent webpages discussing fine distinctions of various paronyms (kind of like synonyms), e.g. the page about éruption et irruption
http://bdl.oqlf.gouv.qc.ca/bdl/gabarit_ ... 1=&id=2079
The full list is at
http://bdl.oqlf.gouv.qc.ca/bdl/gabarit_ ... &Th_id=130
I wonder if there is another website, especially one hosted by a formal institution. The best would be one on Centre National de Ressources Textuelles et Lexicales (www.cnrtl.fr), a branch of French Academy of Sciences if I'm not mistaken. But as far as I can tell, they don't have such webpages. The Québécois pages are definitely authoritative. But sometimes I wonder if they may unintentionally bring in word connotations and nuances that are in Canadian French but not in French French.
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Re: Paronym distinctions by Office québécois de la langue française
I have looked at those pages a lot and have never once thought that anything about their explanations seemed specific to Canadian French, apart from addressing certain anglicisms that are present in Canada but not in France.
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