aberration
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#22,751
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
aberration is aFrenchnoun. It means: Écart d’imagination ; erreur de jugement ; absurdité. Pronounced \a.bɛ.ʁa.sjɔ̃\. Often confused with aération and aberrations.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aberration |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.bɛ.ʁa.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #22,751 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for aberration is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.bɛ.ʁa.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #22,751 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for aberration, with forms such as "abberration", "aberartion", and "aberation". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "aération", "aberrations", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is aberration, spelled A-B-E-R-R-A-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Écart d’imagination ; erreur de jugement ; absurdité.
- 2Anomalie d’une fonction.
- 3Mouvement apparent observé dans les astres et qui résulte du mouvement de la lumière combiné avec celui de la Terre.
- 4Dispersion qui s’opère entre les divers rayons lumineux émanés d’un même point, lorsqu’ils rencontrent des surfaces courbes qui les réfléchissent ou les réfractent, de sorte qu’ils ne peuvent plus ensuite être concentrés exactement en un même foyer.
- 5Anomalie dans la disposition ou dans le fonctionnement des organes.
- 6Exception que présente un système.
- 7, caractère d'une valeur, ou d'un individu, aberrante.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: abberration,aberartion,aberation,aberraiton,aberratino,aberrationn,aberratoin,aberrattion,aberrtaion,abreration,aebrration,baerration
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for aberration
Misspelling Variants of "aberration"
Frequency rank: #22,751 in French
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