administration

/\ad.mi.nis.tʁa.sjɔ̃\/ noun

Letters

14 characters

Frequency Rank

#816

in French word usage

Misspellings

21

tracked variants

Confusables

4

similar word pairs

administration is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action d’administrer ; direction ou conduite des affaires publiques ou particulières. Pronounced \ad.mi.nis.tʁa.sjɔ̃\. It ranks #816 in French word frequency. Often confused with administrative and administrations.

Key facts for administration
PropertyValue
Headwordadministration
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ad.mi.nis.tʁa.sjɔ̃\
Letters14
Frequency rank#816
Misspellings tracked21
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for administration is 14 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ad.mi.nis.tʁa.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #816 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 21 documented wrong-spelling variants for administration, with forms such as "addministration", "adimnistration", and "admiinstration". 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, "administrative", "administrations", "administratif", 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 administration, spelled A-D-M-I-N-I-S-T-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
    Action d’administrer ; direction ou conduite des affaires publiques ou particulières.
  2. 2
    Période de cette direction des affaires.
  3. 3
    Corps des fonctionnaires chargés collectivement de quelque partie de l’administration publique.
  4. 4
    Corps des fonctionnaires chargés collectivement de quelque partie de l’administration publique.
  5. 5
    Corps des fonctionnaires chargés collectivement de quelque partie de l’administration publique.
  6. 6
    Gouvernement américain.
  7. 7
    Action d’administrer, de fournir une chose à une autre.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: addministration,adimnistration,admiinstration,adminisrtation,adminisstration,administartion,administraiton,administratino,administrationn,administratoin,administrattion,administrration,administrtaion,administtration,adminitsration,adminnistration,adminsitration,admministration,admniistration,amdinistration,daministration

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for administration

Misspelling Variants of "administration"

addministration15adimnistration14admiinstration14adminisrtation14adminisstration15administartion14administraiton14administratino14
Misspelling Variants of "administration"

Frequency rank: #816 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "administration"?
"administration" is spelled A-D-M-I-N-I-S-T-R-A-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \ad.mi.nis.tʁa.sjɔ̃\.
What does "administration" mean?
As a noun, "administration" means: Action d’administrer ; direction ou conduite des affaires publiques ou particulières.
What words are commonly confused with "administration"?
"administration" is commonly confused with "administrative", "administrations", "administratif". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "administration"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "administration" is \ad.mi.nis.tʁa.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "administration" come from?
"administration" 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.