accommodation

/\a.kɔ.mɔ.da.sjɔ̃\/ noun

Letters

13 characters

Frequency Rank

#67,252

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

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0

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accommodation is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action d’accommoder ou de s’accommoder à quelque chose. Pronounced \a.kɔ.mɔ.da.sjɔ̃\.

Key facts for accommodation
PropertyValue
Headwordaccommodation
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.kɔ.mɔ.da.sjɔ̃\
Letters13
Frequency rank#67,252
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for accommodation is 13 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.kɔ.mɔ.da.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #67,252 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 16 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for accommodation in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 accommodation, spelled A-C-C-O-M-M-O-D-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
    Action d’accommoder ou de s’accommoder à quelque chose.
  2. 2
    Action d’installer convenablement une personne.
  3. 3
    Mécanisme de positionnement naturel du fœtus pour l’accouchement.
  4. 4
    Fait d’adapter un lieu.
  5. 5
    Fait d’arranger des aliments entre eux.
  6. 6
    Formation musicale.
  7. 7
    Dans le domaine de la fatigue des matériaux, désigne un chargement cyclique formant une courbe d'hystérésis, par effet Bauschinger.
  8. 8
    Prêt sans intérêt.
  9. 9
    Fait d’accommoder individuellement les paroles de l’Écriture à sa propre pensée en profitant à cet effet d’une ressemblance réelle ou accidentelle.
  10. 10
    Fait d’accommoder individuellement les paroles de l’Écriture à sa propre pensée en profitant à cet effet d’une ressemblance réelle ou accidentelle.
  11. 11
    Mécanisme réflexe des muscles ciliaires par lequel s’effectue la mise au point du système optique selon les variations de clarté et de distance entre l’objet vu et la rétine en modifiant plus ou moins la courbure du cristallin.
  12. 12
    Adaptation d’un organisme aux modifications de son milieu de vie.
  13. 13
    Modelage psychique inconscient permettant l’adaptation d’un individu à son milieu.
  14. 14
    Changement d’une lettre par rapport à sa voisine pour rendre la prononciation plus fluide.
  15. 15
    Fait d’adapter son langage à son interlocuteur ou interlocutrice.
  16. 16
    Action de s’accorder avec les vibrations du milieu ambiant.

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Frequency rank: #67,252 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "accommodation"?
"accommodation" is spelled A-C-C-O-M-M-O-D-A-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \a.kɔ.mɔ.da.sjɔ̃\.
What does "accommodation" mean?
As a noun, "accommodation" means: Action d’accommoder ou de s’accommoder à quelque chose.
How do you pronounce "accommodation"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "accommodation" is \a.kɔ.mɔ.da.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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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.