collation
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#25,933
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
collation is aFrenchnoun. It means: Repas léger que les catholiques font les jours de jeûne pour remplacer le souper, et par extension, un repas léger pris au cours de la journée. Pronounced \kɔ.la.sjɔ̃\. Often confused with cotation and collision.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | collation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.la.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #25,933 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for collation is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ.la.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #25,933 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for collation, with forms such as "ccollation", "clolation", and "colaltion". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "cotation", "collision", "collusion", and more, 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 collation, spelled C-O-L-L-A-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Repas léger que les catholiques font les jours de jeûne pour remplacer le souper, et par extension, un repas léger pris au cours de la journée.
- 2Repas léger qu’on fait dans l’après-dîner à l’occasion d’une cérémonie, d’une chasse, etc.
- 3N'importe quelle espèce de repas léger, pris à n'importe quelle heure du jour ou de la nuit, et dans toutes sortes d'occasions.
- 4Action, droit de conférer à quelqu’un des grades universitaires.
- 5Droit de conférer un bénéfice ecclésiastique.
- 6Action de collationner ou résultat de cette action.
- 7Ordre prescrit ou une spécification donnée déterminant la manière d’agencer une liste de chaînes de caractères, action d’agencer selon un tel ordre, ou encore résultat de cette action.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccollation,clolation,colaltion,colation,collaiton,collatino,collationn,collatoin,collattion,colltaion,ocllation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "collation"
Frequency rank: #25,933 in French
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