anticipation
Letters
12 characters
Frequency Rank
#13,313
in French word usage
Misspellings
17
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
anticipation is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de se projeter dans l’avenir, de se représenter les résultats attendus d’une action cognitive ou de stratégies à mettre en œuvre pour y parvenir. Pronounced \ɑ̃.ti.si.pa.sjɔ̃\. Often confused with anticipations.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | anticipation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.ti.si.pa.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #13,313 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for anticipation is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.ti.si.pa.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #13,313 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for anticipation, with forms such as "anitcipation", "annticipation", and "antciipation". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "anticipations", 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 anticipation, spelled A-N-T-I-C-I-P-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 se projeter dans l’avenir, de se représenter les résultats attendus d’une action cognitive ou de stratégies à mettre en œuvre pour y parvenir.
- 2Action de dépenser un revenu avant qu’il soit échu.
- 3Avance de fonds sur une consignation de marchandises.
- 4Usurpation, empiétement sur le bien ou sur les droits d’autrui.
- 5Fait de réfuter d’avance les objections qui pourront être faites.
- 6Genre littéraire où les histoires se passent dans un futur proche ou hypothétique. (Syn. : science-fiction)
- 7Note étrangère à l’accord avec lequel elle est jouée, mais qui annonce l’accord suivant, dont elle est une note réelle.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: anitcipation,annticipation,antciipation,anticcipation,anticiaption,anticipaiton,anticipatino,anticipationn,anticipatoin,anticipattion,anticippation,anticiptaion,anticpiation,antiicpation,antticipation,atnicipation,naticipation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for anticipation
Misspelling Variants of "anticipation"
Frequency rank: #13,313 in French
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