administration
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | administration |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ad.mi.nis.tʁa.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #816 |
| Misspellings tracked | 21 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Action d’administrer ; direction ou conduite des affaires publiques ou particulières.
- 2Période de cette direction des affaires.
- 3Corps des fonctionnaires chargés collectivement de quelque partie de l’administration publique.
- 4Corps des fonctionnaires chargés collectivement de quelque partie de l’administration publique.
- 5Corps des fonctionnaires chargés collectivement de quelque partie de l’administration publique.
- 6Gouvernement américain.
- 7Action d’administrer, de fournir une chose à une autre.
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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"
Frequency rank: #816 in French
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