cantonnement
Letters
12 characters
Frequency Rank
#37,217
in French word usage
Misspellings
17
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
cantonnement is aFrenchnoun. It means: État des troupes cantonnées. ^([1]) Pronounced \kɑ̃.tɔn.mɑ̃\. Often confused with cautionnement.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cantonnement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɑ̃.tɔn.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #37,217 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cantonnement is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɑ̃.tɔn.mɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #37,217 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 17 documented wrong-spelling variants for cantonnement, with forms such as "acntonnement", "canntonnement", and "canotnnement". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "cautionnement", 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 cantonnement, spelled C-A-N-T-O-N-N-E-M-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1État des troupes cantonnées. ^([1])
- 2Lieu dans lequel les troupes cantonnent. ^([1])
- 3Espace limité, réservé à certains usages. ^([1])
- 4Zone délimitée dans laquelle la capture d’espèces marines est soit interdite, soit limitée dans le temps ou réservée à certains engins, en vue d’une meilleure gestion des ressources halieutiques. ^([2])
- 5Limitation des droits d’un créancier.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acntonnement,canntonnement,canotnnement,cantnonement,cantonement,cantonenment,cantonneemnt,cantonnemennt,cantonnementt,cantonnemetn,cantonnemment,cantonnemnet,cantonnmeent,canttonnement,catnonnement,ccantonnement,cnatonnement
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cantonnement
Misspelling Variants of "cantonnement"
Frequency rank: #37,217 in French
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Nearby French words
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