aquarium
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#14,854
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
aquarium is aFrenchnoun. It means: Réservoir d’eau, généralement en verre épais, dans lequel on garde des poissons ou des algues. Pronounced \a.kwa.ʁjɔm\. Often confused with aquarius and aquariums.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aquarium |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.kwa.ʁjɔm\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #14,854 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for aquarium is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.kwa.ʁjɔm\. Corpus data places it at rank #14,854 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for aquarium, with forms such as "aqaurium", "aqquarium", and "aquairum". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "aquarius", "aquariums", 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 aquarium, spelled A-Q-U-A-R-I-U-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Réservoir d’eau, généralement en verre épais, dans lequel on garde des poissons ou des algues.
- 2Établissement aquariologique, bâtiment ou espace dans lequel une collection d’animaux et de végétaux aquatiques est exposée dans des réservoirs d'eau.
- 3Tableau d’affichage vitré.
- 4Espace de travail vitré, clos et de petites dimensions.
- 5Espace confiné dans lequel on fume du cannabis afin de respirer plus de fumée.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aqaurium,aqquarium,aquairum,aquarimu,aquariumm,aquarrium,aquaruim,aquraium,auqarium,qauarium
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for aquarium
Misspelling Variants of "aquarium"
Frequency rank: #14,854 in French
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