atténuation
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#26,966
in French word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
atténuation is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action d’atténuer, de diminuer ; résultat de cette action. Pronounced \a.te.nɥa.sjɔ̃\. Often confused with attestation and attention.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | atténuation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.te.nɥa.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #26,966 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for atténuation is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.te.nɥa.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #26,966 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 9 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 atténuation, with forms such as "attenuation", "attnéuation", and "atténaution". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "attestation", "attention", 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 atténuation, spelled A-T-T-É-N-U-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’atténuer, de diminuer ; résultat de cette action.
- 2Affaiblissement, diminution de forces. Il n’est guère usité que dans l'expression «être dans une grande atténuation»
- 3Action des remèdes atténuants ; emploi de la diététique de manière à produire l’amaigrissement régulier.
- 4Diminution des charges contre un accusé et de la peine prononcée.
- 5Action de rendre ténu, c’est-à-dire de diviser un corps en ses plus petites parties.
- 6Action d’atténuer un fluide, de le rendre plus liquide, moins épais.
- 7Procédé par lequel on rend moins virulent les germes utilisés pour réaliser certains vaccins.
- 8Système de contrôle de l’expression génique consistant en une interruption prématurée de la transcription d’un opéron de biosynthèse.
- 9Affaiblissement d’un signal, généralement mesuré en décibels (dB).
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: attenuation,attnéuation,atténaution,atténnuation,atténuaiton,atténuatino,atténuationn,atténuatoin,atténuattion,atténutaion,attéunation,aténuation,atétnuation,taténuation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for atténuation
Misspelling Variants of "atténuation"
Frequency rank: #26,966 in French
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