condensation
Letters
12 characters
Frequency Rank
#22,526
in French word usage
Misspellings
18
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
condensation is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action par laquelle un corps qui occupe actuellement un certain espace est réduit à un espace moindre. Pronounced \kɔ̃.dɑ̃.sa.sjɔ̃\. Often confused with conversation and compensation.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | condensation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.dɑ̃.sa.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #22,526 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for condensation is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃.dɑ̃.sa.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #22,526 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for condensation, with forms such as "ccondensation", "cnodensation", and "codnensation". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "conversation", "compensation", 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 condensation, spelled C-O-N-D-E-N-S-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
- 1Action par laquelle un corps qui occupe actuellement un certain espace est réduit à un espace moindre.
- 2Réduction d'un gaz ou d'une vapeur, en liquide, voire en solide.
- 3Très fines gouttelettes se déposant par contact de la vapeur d'eau avec une surface (souvent le verre) plus froide que l'air ambiant.
- 4Réaction de jonction entre deux ou plusieurs entités moléculaires aboutissant à un seul produit et qui s'accompagne généralement de l'élimination d'une petite molécule (eau, ammoniac, etc.).
- 5Réduction d'une chose à ce qui lui est essentiel.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccondensation,cnodensation,codnensation,conddensation,condenastion,condennsation,condensaiton,condensatino,condensationn,condensatoin,condensattion,condenssation,condenstaion,condesnation,condnesation,conednsation,conndensation,ocndensation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for condensation
Misspelling Variants of "condensation"
Frequency rank: #22,526 in French
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