approximation
Letters
13 characters
Frequency Rank
#21,851
in French word usage
Misspellings
17
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
approximation is aFrenchnoun. It means: Estimation par à peu près, où l’on se contente d’approcher de la vérité sans s’attacher à une exactitude rigoureuse. Pronounced \a.pʁɔk.si.ma.sjɔ̃\. Often confused with approximative and approximations.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | approximation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.pʁɔk.si.ma.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #21,851 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for approximation is 13 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.pʁɔk.si.ma.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #21,851 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.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 17 documented wrong-spelling variants for approximation, with forms such as "apporximation", "approixmation", and "approxiamtion". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "approximative", "approximations", "approximatif", 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 approximation, spelled A-P-P-R-O-X-I-M-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
- 1Estimation par à peu près, où l’on se contente d’approcher de la vérité sans s’attacher à une exactitude rigoureuse.
- 2Mode d’articulation consonantique caractérisé par un resserrement du canal vocal sans compression de l’air, de manière à ne produire aucune impression auditive de friction.
- 3Procédure permettant de calculer une valeur approchée d’un nombre, par exemple en arrondissant.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: apporximation,approixmation,approxiamtion,approximaiton,approximatino,approximationn,approximatoin,approximattion,approximmation,approximtaion,approxmiation,approxximation,apprroximation,apprxoimation,aproximation,aprpoximation,paproximation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for approximation
Misspelling Variants of "approximation"
Frequency rank: #21,851 in French
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