artificialisation
\aʁ.ti.fi.sja.li.za.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“artificialisation” is uncommon French (frequency #68,819 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,819
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de transformer ce qui est naturel en une construction humaine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-artificialisation · artificialisation · French
artificialisation · rank #68,819 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,819
- LEN-MEGA 17 letters
- VOW-9 9 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH arthropodes
Nearest frequency peer: arthropodes (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « artificialisation »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
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31,185 corpus weight
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artificialisation
31,182 corpus weight
- artéfact
artéfact
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- asma
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- aspirez
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What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « artificialisation » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | artificialisation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \aʁ.ti.fi.sja.li.za.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Frequency rank | #68,819 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « artificialisation » en français
Rare enough to double-check
artificialisation is uncommon French at frequency #68,819 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \aʁ.ti.fi.sja.li.za.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
artificialisation has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is artificialisation, spelled A-R-T-I-F-I-C-I-A-L-I-S-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action de transformer ce qui est naturel en une construction humaine.
- 2Action de transformer un espace naturel en espace artificiel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how artificialisation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’artificialisation physique présente une différence fondamentale par rapport à la pollution, dans la mesure où l'impact peut rester circonscrit à la zone aménagée si l'équilibre morphodynamique du secteur n'est pas modifié.
Contre l'aéroport de Notre-Dame-des-Landes, le candidat malheureux à la primaire écologiste de la présidentielle espère aussi un engagement visant à mettre fin à l'artificialisation des sols (par l'étalement urbain ou la construction de routes) "dans dix ans".
Antonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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