autorégulation

\ɔ.to.ʁe.ɡy.la.sjɔ̃\

/\ɔ.to.ʁe.ɡy.la.sjɔ̃\/ noun

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The verdict

“autorégulation” is uncommon French (frequency #63,536 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#63,536
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Régulation (d’un processus, d’une fonction) par l’organisme, sans intervention extérieure.

Corpus desk

Index FR-autoregulation · autorégulation · French

autorégulation · rank #63,536 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #63,536
  • LEN-MEGA 14 letters
  • VOW-8 8 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH Audin

Nearest frequency peer: Audin (-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 « autorégulation »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « autorégulation » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for autorégulation
PropertyValue
Headwordautorégulation
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɔ.to.ʁe.ɡy.la.sjɔ̃\
Letters14
Frequency rank#63,536
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « autorégulation » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.autorégulationtombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « Audin » (#63,535), « avenger » (#63,537), « attires » (#63,534). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « autorégulation » est au #63,536. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

autorégulation is uncommon French at frequency #63,536 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɔ.to.ʁe.ɡy.la.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.

No misspelling variants are generated for autorégulation in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is autorégulation, spelled A-U-T-O-R-É-G-U-L-A-T-I-O-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Régulation (d’un processus, d’une fonction) par l’organisme, sans intervention extérieure.
  2. 2
    Système par lequel un mécanisme, une machine, un groupe, une société, etc. se régulent de façon autonome.
  3. 3
    Processus où un facteur inhibant endogène compense les effets de changements internes ou externes.
  4. 4
    Système de régulation où le produit d’un gène contrôle sa propre expression.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how autorégulation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Autorégulation de la glycémie, de la pression artérielle.
  2. Au printemps, Pierre Moscovici avait annoncé que le gouvernement ne légiférerait pas sur les hautes rémunérations du privé, préférant s’en remettre à « l’autorégulation exigeante ». Patron de PSA, Philippe Varin a failli pouvoir lui dire merci : il voulait pouvoir partir avec une retraite chapeau de 21 millions d’euros. Un tollé d’indignation l’y a fait r…

Synonyms

régulation autogèneautoréglage

This word in other languages

autoregulation(English)autorregulación(Español)Selbstregulation(Deutsch)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "autorégulation"?
"autorégulation" is spelled A-U-T-O-R-É-G-U-L-A-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \ɔ.to.ʁe.ɡy.la.sjɔ̃\.
What does "autorégulation" mean?
As a noun, "autorégulation" means: Régulation (d’un processus, d’une fonction) par l’organisme, sans intervention extérieure.
How do you pronounce "autorégulation"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "autorégulation" is \ɔ.to.ʁe.ɡy.la.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "autorégulation", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 14 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

centrafricains#63,608construisaient#63,647fonctionneront#63,763programmateurs#63,262

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list