combinaison
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,737
in French word usage
Misspellings
16
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
combinaison is aFrenchnoun. It means: Assemblage de plusieurs choses disposées deux à deux, ou de plusieurs choses disposées entre elles dans un certain ordre. Pronounced \kɔ̃.bi.nɛ.zɔ̃\. It ranks #4,737 in French word frequency. Often confused with combinaisons.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | combinaison |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.bi.nɛ.zɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #4,737 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for combinaison is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃.bi.nɛ.zɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,737 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 16 documented wrong-spelling variants for combinaison, with forms such as "ccombinaison", "cmobinaison", and "cobminaison". 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, "combinaisons", 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 combinaison, spelled C-O-M-B-I-N-A-I-S-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Assemblage de plusieurs choses disposées deux à deux, ou de plusieurs choses disposées entre elles dans un certain ordre.
- 2Mesures, calculs par lesquels on prépare le succès de quelque affaire.
- 3Acte par lequel deux ou plusieurs matières s’unissent pour former un composé doué de propriétés différentes.
- 4Sous-vêtement féminin d’une seule pièce, maintenu par des bretelles aux épaules et habillant le corps jusqu’aux genoux.
- 5Vêtement d’une seule pièce habillant le corps.
- 6Collection non ordonnée d’éléments d’un ensemble.
- 7Collection non ordonnée d’éléments d’un ensemble.
- 8Collection non ordonnée d’éléments d’un ensemble.
- 9Vêtement de corps couvrant de la taille aux chevilles, porté tout particulièrement pour l'extérieur en hiver. Note: Ce mot est souvent employé au pluriel, même pour une seule pièce de vêtement.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccombinaison,cmobinaison,cobminaison,combbinaison,combianison,combinaiosn,combinaisno,combinaisonn,combinaisson,combinasion,combiniason,combinnaison,combniaison,comibnaison,commbinaison,ocmbinaison
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for combinaison
Misspelling Variants of "combinaison"
Frequency rank: #4,737 in French
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