Skip to main content

admission

French, noun/ad.mi.sjɔ̃/

admission is spelled A-D-M-I-S-S-I-O-N (9 letters) and appears 7.2 times per million words in written French, the 8,517th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Admission is a French feminine noun meaning “admission (act of admitting; state of being admitted)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Le fait d’être admis”.

What does admission mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    feminineadmission (act of admitting; state of being admitted)

    examen d'admission

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Le fait d’être admis. 2. Il se dit spécialement du fait d’être admis après épreuves à un examen, à un concours. 3. Conduit par lequel les gaz frais arrivent dans la chambre de combustion dans un moteur à explosion ou diesel. Phase du cycle d'un moteur à piston (à eau, à vapeur, ou à combustion interne) pendant laquelle des fluides non combustibles sont introduits dans le volume variable. 4. Ensemble de la chaîne qui permet la création et le cheminement des gaz inflammables dans un moteur à combustion interne.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of admission

  • admissions plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce admission?

  • /ad.mi.sjɔ̃/
  • \ad.mi.sjɔ̃\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to admission

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is admission in French?

admission appears 7.2 times per million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

What to look up after admission