application
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,133
in French word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
application is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action d’appliquer. Pronounced \a.pli.ka.sjɔ̃\. It ranks #1,133 in French word frequency. Often confused with applications.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | application |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.pli.ka.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #1,133 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for application is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.pli.ka.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,133 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 12 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 application, with forms such as "aplication", "aplpication", and "appilcation". 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, "applications", 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 application, spelled A-P-P-L-I-C-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 d’appliquer.
- 2Résultat de cette action.
- 3Ce qui est réalisé pratiquement ; ce qui devient réalité de notions théoriques.
- 4Programme informatique utilisant des fonctionnalités d’une certaine plate-forme comme un système d’exploitation et opérant sur celle-ci.
- 5Programme informatique utilisant des fonctionnalités d’une certaine plate-forme comme un système d’exploitation et opérant sur celle-ci.
- 6Extension d’un usage, de principes ou de procédés dans un autre domaine.
- 7Extension d’un usage, de principes ou de procédés dans un autre domaine.
- 8Emploi spécial que l’on fait ou que l’on doit faire d’une chose.
- 9Assiduité, action de s’appliquer de toute son attention à une chose, diligence.
- 10Relation entre deux ensembles E et F qui, à tout élément de E, fait correspondre un élément bien déterminé de F appelé image du premier. Dans ce cas, E s’appelle l’ensemble de départ ou de définition, et F l’ensemble de destination ou d’arrivée.
- 11Préparation médicale destinée à être appliquée sur la peau.
- 12Transaction boursière publique convenue entre deux opérateurs commençant généralement par la recherche du cours d’application auquel elle s’effectuera.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aplication,aplpication,appilcation,applciation,appliaction,applicaiton,applicatino,applicationn,applicatoin,applicattion,appliccation,applictaion,appllication,paplication
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for application
Misspelling Variants of "application"
Frequency rank: #1,133 in French
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