cations
\ka.tjɔ̃\
The verdict
“cations” is uncommon French (frequency #57,815 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,815
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de cation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cations · cations · French
cations · rank #57,815 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,815
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH celebration
Nearest frequency peer: celebration (+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 « cations »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cassera
cassera
42,189 corpus weight
- caster
caster
42,188 corpus weight
- cations
cations
42,186 corpus weight
- celebration
celebration
42,185 corpus weight
- cessèrent
cessèrent
42,184 corpus weight
- chakras
chakras
42,183 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cations » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cations |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.tjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #57,815 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cations » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cations is uncommon French at frequency #57,815 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ka.tjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de cation.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for cations, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is cations, spelled C-A-T-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de cation.
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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