confirmation
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | confirmation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.fiʁ.ma.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #5,959 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Action de confirmer.
- 2Ce qui rend une chose ferme et stable.
- 3Certitude qu’on acquiert d’une chose qui avait déjà été donnée pour vraie.
- 4Partie du discours oratoire qui suit la narration et par laquelle on prouve ce qu’on vient d’avancer.
- 5Sacrement par lequel les chrétiens, en recevant le Saint-Esprit avec l’abondance de ses dons, sont confirmés dans la grâce reçue au baptême.
- 6Dans 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
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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"
Frequency rank: #5,959 in French
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Nearby French words
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