automation

/\o.tɔ.ma.sjɔ̃\/ noun

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#49,505

in French word usage

Misspellings

13

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

automation is aFrenchnoun. It means: Automatisation. Pronounced \o.tɔ.ma.sjɔ̃\.

Key facts for automation
PropertyValue
Headwordautomation
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\o.tɔ.ma.sjɔ̃\
Letters10
Frequency rank#49,505
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of automation in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for automation is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \o.tɔ.ma.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #49,505 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Automatisation.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for automation, with forms such as "atuomation", "auotmation", and "autmoation". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 automation, spelled A-U-T-O-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

  1. 1
    Automatisation.

Synonyms

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: atuomation,auotmation,autmoation,autoamtion,automaiton,automatino,automationn,automatoin,automattion,autommation,automtaion,auttomation,uatomation

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for automation

Misspelling Variants of "automation"

atuomation10auotmation10autmoation10autoamtion10automaiton10automatino10automationn11automatoin10
Misspelling Variants of "automation"

Frequency rank: #49,505 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "automation"?
"automation" is spelled A-U-T-O-M-A-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \o.tɔ.ma.sjɔ̃\.
What does "automation" mean?
As a noun, "automation" means: Automatisation.
What are common misspellings of "automation"?
Common misspellings include "atuomation", "auotmation", "autmoation", "autoamtion", "automaiton". The correct spelling is "automation".
How do you pronounce "automation"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "automation" is \o.tɔ.ma.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "automation" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.