conciliation

/\kɔ̃.si.lja.sjɔ̃\/ noun

Letters

12 characters

Frequency Rank

#16,840

in French word usage

Misspellings

17

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

conciliation is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de concilier ensemble des personnes, des opinions, des intérêts; résultat de cette action. Pronounced \kɔ̃.si.lja.sjɔ̃\.

Key facts for conciliation
PropertyValue
Headwordconciliation
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kɔ̃.si.lja.sjɔ̃\
Letters12
Frequency rank#16,840
Misspellings tracked17
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of conciliation in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for conciliation is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃.si.lja.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #16,840 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 17 documented wrong-spelling variants for conciliation, with forms such as "cconciliation", "cnociliation", and "cocniliation". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 conciliation, spelled C-O-N-C-I-L-I-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

  1. 1
    Action de concilier ensemble des personnes, des opinions, des intérêts; résultat de cette action.
  2. 2
    Comparution devant un magistrat ou une personne habilitée, pour essayer de se concilier, avant de commencer un procès au civil.
  3. 3
    Action d’accorder ensemble des textes ou des lois qui paraissent en opposition.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: cconciliation,cnociliation,cocniliation,concciliation,conciilation,concilaition,conciliaiton,conciliatino,conciliationn,conciliatoin,conciliattion,concilitaion,concilliation,concliiation,conicliation,connciliation,ocnciliation

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for conciliation

Misspelling Variants of "conciliation"

cconciliation13cnociliation12cocniliation12concciliation13conciilation12concilaition12conciliaiton12conciliatino12
Misspelling Variants of "conciliation"

Frequency rank: #16,840 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "conciliation"?
"conciliation" is spelled C-O-N-C-I-L-I-A-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ̃.si.lja.sjɔ̃\.
What does "conciliation" mean?
As a noun, "conciliation" means: Action de concilier ensemble des personnes, des opinions, des intérêts; résultat de cette action.
What are common misspellings of "conciliation"?
Common misspellings include "cconciliation", "cnociliation", "cocniliation", "concciliation", "conciilation". The correct spelling is "conciliation".
How do you pronounce "conciliation"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "conciliation" is \kɔ̃.si.lja.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "conciliation" come from?
"conciliation" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.