confirmation

/\kɔ̃.fiʁ.ma.sjɔ̃\/ noun

Letters

12 characters

Frequency Rank

#5,959

in French word usage

Misspellings

18

tracked variants

Confusables

2

similar word pairs

confirmation is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de confirmer. Pronounced \kɔ̃.fiʁ.ma.sjɔ̃\. It ranks #5,959 in French word frequency. Often confused with confiscation and conformation.

Key facts for confirmation
PropertyValue
Headwordconfirmation
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kɔ̃.fiʁ.ma.sjɔ̃\
Letters12
Frequency rank#5,959
Misspellings tracked18
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for confirmation is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃.fiʁ.ma.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,959 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 18 documented wrong-spelling variants for confirmation, with forms such as "cconfirmation", "cnofirmation", and "cofnirmation". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "confiscation", "conformation", 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 confirmation, spelled C-O-N-F-I-R-M-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 confirmer.
  2. 2
    Ce qui rend une chose ferme et stable.
  3. 3
    Certitude qu’on acquiert d’une chose qui avait déjà été donnée pour vraie.
  4. 4
    Partie du discours oratoire qui suit la narration et par laquelle on prouve ce qu’on vient d’avancer.
  5. 5
    Sacrement par lequel les chrétiens, en recevant le Saint-Esprit avec l’abondance de ses dons, sont confirmés dans la grâce reçue au baptême.
  6. 6
    Dans des confessions protestantes pratiquant le baptême des enfants, cérémonie de réaffirmation de la foi qui a lieu à l’adolescence ou plus tard, et qui ne constitue pas un sacrement.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: cconfirmation,cnofirmation,cofnirmation,conffirmation,confimration,confiramtion,confirmaiton,confirmatino,confirmationn,confirmatoin,confirmattion,confirmmation,confirmtaion,confirrmation,confrimation,conifrmation,connfirmation,ocnfirmation

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for confirmation

Misspelling Variants of "confirmation"

cconfirmation13cnofirmation12cofnirmation12conffirmation13confimration12confiramtion12confirmaiton12confirmatino12
Misspelling Variants of "confirmation"

Frequency rank: #5,959 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "confirmation"?
"confirmation" is spelled C-O-N-F-I-R-M-A-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ̃.fiʁ.ma.sjɔ̃\.
What does "confirmation" mean?
As a noun, "confirmation" means: Action de confirmer.
What words are commonly confused with "confirmation"?
"confirmation" is commonly confused with "confiscation", "conformation". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "confirmation"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "confirmation" is \kɔ̃.fiʁ.ma.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "confirmation" come from?
"confirmation" 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.