aberration

/\a.bɛ.ʁa.sjɔ̃\/ noun

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.

Key facts for aberration
PropertyValue
Headwordaberration
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.bɛ.ʁa.sjɔ̃\
Letters10
Frequency rank#22,751
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of aberration in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Écart d’imagination ; erreur de jugement ; absurdité.
  2. 2
    Anomalie d’une fonction.
  3. 3
    Mouvement apparent observé dans les astres et qui résulte du mouvement de la lumière combiné avec celui de la Terre.
  4. 4
    Dispersion 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.
  5. 5
    Anomalie dans la disposition ou dans le fonctionnement des organes.
  6. 6
    Exception que présente un système.
  7. 7
    , caractère d'une valeur, ou d'un individu, aberrante.

Synonyms

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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"

abberration11aberartion10aberation9aberraiton10aberratino10aberrationn11aberratoin10aberrattion11
Misspelling Variants of "aberration"

Frequency rank: #22,751 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "aberration"?
"aberration" is spelled A-B-E-R-R-A-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \a.bɛ.ʁa.sjɔ̃\.
What does "aberration" mean?
As a noun, "aberration" means: Écart d’imagination ; erreur de jugement ; absurdité.
What words are commonly confused with "aberration"?
"aberration" is commonly confused with "aération", "aberrations". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "aberration"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "aberration" is \a.bɛ.ʁa.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "aberration" come from?
"aberration" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.