civilisationnel
The verdict
“civilisationnel” is uncommon French (frequency #87,466 among 257,141 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,466
- frequency rank, French
- 257,141
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Relatif à la civilisation.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | civilisationnel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 15 |
| Frequency rank | #87,466 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “civilisationnel” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
civilisationnel is uncommon French at frequency #87,466 among 257,141 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif à la civilisation.".
civilisationnel has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is civilisationnel, spelled C-I-V-I-L-I-S-A-T-I-O-N-N-E-L.
Definition
- 1Relatif à la civilisation.
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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Using “civilisationnel”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-I-V-I-L-I-S-A-T-I-O-N-N-E-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.