agglutination

/\a.ɡly.ti.na.sjɔ̃\/ noun

Letters

13 characters

Frequency Rank

#93,464

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

agglutination is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action d’agglutiner, de s’agglutiner. Pronounced \a.ɡly.ti.na.sjɔ̃\.

Key facts for agglutination
PropertyValue
Headwordagglutination
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.ɡly.ti.na.sjɔ̃\
Letters13
Frequency rank#93,464
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for agglutination is 13 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.ɡly.ti.na.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #93,464 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for agglutination 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 agglutination, spelled A-G-G-L-U-T-I-N-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’agglutiner, de s’agglutiner.
  2. 2
    Procédé qui consiste à former des mots nouveaux ou des formes de mots nouvelles en leur adjoignant des éléments qui avaient d’abord une existence indépendante.
  3. 3
    Groupement en amas distincts de molécules porteurs d’antigène, en suspension dans un liquide, qui survient lorsqu’on ajoute à ce liquide l’anticorps correspondant.

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #93,464 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "agglutination"?
"agglutination" is spelled A-G-G-L-U-T-I-N-A-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \a.ɡly.ti.na.sjɔ̃\.
What does "agglutination" mean?
As a noun, "agglutination" means: Action d’agglutiner, de s’agglutiner.
How do you pronounce "agglutination"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "agglutination" is \a.ɡly.ti.na.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.