ablation
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#26,240
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
ablation is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action d’amputer un être vivant d’une partie de son corps. Pronounced \a.bla.sjɔ̃\. Often confused with aviation and aération.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ablation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.bla.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #26,240 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ablation is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.bla.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #26,240 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for ablation, with forms such as "abaltion", "abblation", and "ablaiton". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "aviation", "aération", "abolition", and more, 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 ablation, spelled A-B-L-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
- 1Action d’amputer un être vivant d’une partie de son corps.
- 2Action de retrancher du corps une partie morbide.
- 3Action d’un flux de matière ou de rayonnement sur la surface d’un corps, entraînant une perte de substance de celui-ci par décomposition chimique, changement d’état ou érosion mécanique.
- 4Action d’enlever, de retirer une chose de façon généralement brutale.
- 5Suppression soit totale, soit partielle, d’une partie quelconque d’un végétal.
- 6Action d’érosion d’une surface, matière ; ou le phénomène en lui-même.
- 7Perte de glace subie par un glacier soit par fusion, soit par sublimation.
- 8Retranchement d’une syllabe ou d’une lettre au commencement d’un mot. Il peut s’agir de l’action ou du résultat de celle-ci.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: abaltion,abblation,ablaiton,ablatino,ablationn,ablatoin,ablattion,abllation,abltaion,albation,balation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ablation
Misspelling Variants of "ablation"
Frequency rank: #26,240 in French
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