audition
French, noun/o.di.sjɔ̃/
audition is spelled A-U-D-I-T-I-O-N (8 letters) and appears 8.5 times per million words in written French, the 7,540th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Audition is a French feminine noun meaning “audition” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action d’entendre”.
What does audition mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineaudition
- 2
femininehearing
une perte d'audition
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action d’entendre. 2. Action de recevoir un témoignage, d’examiner un compte. 3. Mode de sélection des artistes susceptibles de tenir les rôles d'un film, d'une pièce de théâtre ou d'un programme. 4. Concert de musique d'orgue.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of audition
- auditions plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce audition?
- /o.di.sjɔ̃/
- \o.di.sjɔ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to audition
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is audition in French?
audition appears 8.5 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).