ablactation
\a.blak.ta.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“ablactation” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Arrêt de la sécrétion lactée chez la femme ou chez une femelle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ablactation · ablactation · French
ablactation · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ablactation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.blak.ta.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ablactation » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ablactation is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.blak.ta.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Arrêt de la sécrétion lactée chez la femme ou chez une femelle.".
Zero misspellings are on record for ablactation in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is ablactation, spelled A-B-L-A-C-T-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Arrêt de la sécrétion lactée chez la femme ou chez une femelle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ablactation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’objectif de notre étude a été, d’une part de préciser la période à laquelle la mère arrête définitivement l’allaitement au sein (ablactation) et les modalités de cette ablactation, et d’autre part, d’établir le moment où un autre aliment est introduit dans l’alimentation de l’enfant (sevrage) et de préciser ce ou ces aliments.
Synonyms
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.