condition

/\kɔ̃.di.sjɔ̃\/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,858

in French word usage

Misspellings

13

tracked variants

Confusables

6

similar word pairs

condition is aFrenchnoun. It means: Nature, état ou qualité d’une chose ou d’une personne. Pronounced \kɔ̃.di.sjɔ̃\. It ranks #1,858 in French word frequency. Often confused with conditions and conviction.

Key facts for condition
PropertyValue
Headwordcondition
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kɔ̃.di.sjɔ̃\
Letters9
Frequency rank#1,858
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for condition is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃.di.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,858 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 15 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for condition, with forms such as "ccondition", "cnodition", and "codnition". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "conditions", "conviction", "conduction", 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 condition, spelled C-O-N-D-I-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
    Nature, état ou qualité d’une chose ou d’une personne.
  2. 2
    Qualité d’un objet par rapport à sa destination.
  3. 3
    État d’une personne considérée par rapport à sa naissance.
  4. 4
    État d’une personne appartenant à la noblesse.
  5. 5
    Profession, état dont on est, fortune qu’on possède.
  6. 6
    Domesticité, et, en ce sens, on le dit souvent absolument.
  7. 7
    Situation où l’on se trouve.
  8. 8
    Parti avantageux ou désavantageux que l’on fait à quelqu’un dans une affaire.
  9. 9
    Clause, charge ou obligation moyennant laquelle on fait quelque chose.
  10. 10
    Préalable, ce sans quoi un être ou un objet ne pourrait exister.
  11. 11
    Postulat nécessaire.
  12. 12
    Structure de contrôle qui permet une exécution selon des critères.
  13. 13
    Examen d'une fibre textile pour déterminer son conditionnement, c'est-à-dire la proportion en eau dans son poids, pour la commercialiser loyalement.
  14. 14
    Examen d'une fibre textile pour déterminer son conditionnement, c'est-à-dire la proportion en eau dans son poids, pour la commercialiser loyalement.
  15. 15
    Examen d'une fibre textile pour déterminer son conditionnement, c'est-à-dire la proportion en eau dans son poids, pour la commercialiser loyalement.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ccondition,cnodition,codnition,conddition,condiiton,conditino,conditionn,conditoin,condittion,condtiion,conidtion,conndition,ocndition

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for condition

Misspelling Variants of "condition"

ccondition10cnodition9codnition9conddition10condiiton9conditino9conditionn10conditoin9
Misspelling Variants of "condition"

Frequency rank: #1,858 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "condition"?
"condition" is spelled C-O-N-D-I-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ̃.di.sjɔ̃\.
What does "condition" mean?
As a noun, "condition" means: Nature, état ou qualité d’une chose ou d’une personne.
What words are commonly confused with "condition"?
"condition" is commonly confused with "conditions", "conviction", "conduction". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "condition"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "condition" is \kɔ̃.di.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "condition" come from?
"condition" 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.