cation
\ka.tjɔ̃\
The verdict
“cation” is uncommon French (frequency #61,381 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,381
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ion portant une charge électrique positive.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cation · cation · French
cation · rank #61,381 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,381
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH catégoriques
Nearest frequency peer: catégoriques (+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 « cation »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- caricaturaux
caricaturaux
38,625 corpus weight
- carpaccio
carpaccio
38,623 corpus weight
- cation
cation
38,620 corpus weight
- catégoriques
catégoriques
38,619 corpus weight
- caudale
caudale
38,618 corpus weight
- caza
caza
38,616 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cation » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.tjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #61,381 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cation » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cation is uncommon French at frequency #61,381 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.tjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ion portant une charge électrique positive.".
Zero misspellings are on record for cation in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is cation, spelled C-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Ion portant une charge électrique positive.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les anions forment un polyèdre autour de chaque cation ; la distance entre le cation et chaque anion est déterminée par la somme des rayons des deux ions et le nombre de coordination par le rapport des rayons.
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This word in other languages
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.
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