aliénation
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#20,344
in French word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
aliénation is aFrenchnoun. It means: Transfert volontaire ou forcé à autrui de la propriété ou d’un droit réel sur un bien appartenant au patrimoine d’une personne (→ voir cession et transfert). Pronounced \a.lje.na.sjɔ̃\. Often confused with altération and alimentation.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aliénation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.lje.na.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #20,344 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for aliénation is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.lje.na.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #20,344 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for aliénation, with forms such as "ailénation", "alienation", and "alinéation". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "altération", "alimentation", 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 aliénation, spelled A-L-I-É-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
- 1Transfert volontaire ou forcé à autrui de la propriété ou d’un droit réel sur un bien appartenant au patrimoine d’une personne (→ voir cession et transfert).
- 2Éloignement que des personnes ont les unes pour les autres.
- 3Trouble mental grave, perte de la raison ou égarement de l’esprit.
- 4Dépossession de ce qui fait réellement le charme de l'existence ; éloignement de la réalité ; dépendance à des activités virtuelles, étrangères à la vie réelle ; vie fictive.
- 5Concernant un peuple ou un groupe social : perte d'autonomie, effacement programmé de sa culture, de sa langue et de sa pensée, dépossession de son héritage et de sa culture traditionnelle par une puissance marchande étrangère ou transnationale. Fait de devenir étranger sur son propre territoire.
- 6Atteinte aux droits sociaux, politiques et civils des individus.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ailénation,alienation,alinéation,aliéantion,aliénaiton,aliénatino,aliénationn,aliénatoin,aliénattion,aliénnation,aliéntaion,alliénation,aléination,laiénation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for aliénation
Misspelling Variants of "aliénation"
Frequency rank: #20,344 in French
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