amélioration
Letters
12 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,052
in French word usage
Misspellings
17
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
amélioration is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de prendre quelque chose pour le transformer en le rendant meilleur Pronounced \a.me.ljɔ.ʁa.sjɔ̃\. It ranks #3,052 in French word frequency. Often confused with améliorations.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | amélioration |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.me.ljɔ.ʁa.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #3,052 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for amélioration is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.me.ljɔ.ʁa.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,052 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 17 documented wrong-spelling variants for amélioration, with forms such as "amelioration", "amléioration", and "ammélioration". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "améliorations", 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 amélioration, spelled A-M-É-L-I-O-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 de prendre quelque chose pour le transformer en le rendant meilleur
- 2Résultat de cette action.
- 3Investissement dans un fonds de terre ou dans une maison pour les mettre en état et pour en augmenter le revenu.
- 4Amélioration des plantes : technique qui consiste à rendre les variétés mieux adaptées aux besoins des utilisateurs.
- 5Augmentation de la qualité globale d’un peuplement par la coupe de tiges au profit d’essences de plus grande valeur, d’arbres à la bille de pied mieux conformée…
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amelioration,amléioration,ammélioration,améiloration,amélioartion,amélioraiton,amélioratino,améliorationn,amélioratoin,améliorattion,améliorration,améliortaion,améliroation,améllioration,améloiration,aémlioration,maélioration
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "amélioration"
Frequency rank: #3,052 in French
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