adolescent
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,677
in French word usage
Misspellings
15
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
adolescent is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui est dans l’âge au-dessus de l’enfance sans être encore adulte. Pronounced \a.dɔ.le.sɑ̃\. It ranks #6,677 in French word frequency. Often confused with adolescents and adolescente.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | adolescent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \a.dɔ.le.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #6,677 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for adolescent is 10 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.dɔ.le.sɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,677 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for adolescent, with forms such as "addolescent", "adloescent", and "adoelscent". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "adolescents", "adolescente", "adolescentes", 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 adolescent, spelled A-D-O-L-E-S-C-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui est dans l’âge au-dessus de l’enfance sans être encore adulte.
- 2Qui concerne ou qui caractérise l'adolescence.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: addolescent,adloescent,adoelscent,adolecsent,adolesccent,adolescennt,adolescentt,adolescetn,adolescnet,adolesecnt,adolesscent,adollescent,adolsecent,aodlescent,daolescent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for adolescent
Misspelling Variants of "adolescent"
Frequency rank: #6,677 in French
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