congrégation
Letters
12 characters
Frequency Rank
#11,021
in French word usage
Misspellings
19
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
congrégation is aFrenchnoun. It means: Compagnie de religieux, de religieuses ou de prêtres, catholiques, assujettis à des vœux et à une règle commune. Pronounced \kɔ̃.ɡʁe.ɡa.sjɔ̃\. Often confused with congrégations and congélation.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | congrégation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.ɡʁe.ɡa.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #11,021 |
| Misspellings tracked | 19 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for congrégation is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃.ɡʁe.ɡa.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #11,021 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 19 documented wrong-spelling variants for congrégation, with forms such as "ccongrégation", "cnogrégation", and "cognrégation". 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, "congrégations", "congélation", 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 congrégation, spelled C-O-N-G-R-É-G-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
- 1Compagnie de religieux, de religieuses ou de prêtres, catholiques, assujettis à des vœux et à une règle commune.
- 2Confrérie de dévotion sous l’invocation d’un saint ou d’une sainte.
- 3Assemblée de cardinaux et de prélats, de l’Église catholique romaine, soit permanente, soit nommée d’office pour un cas particulier, et chargée d’examiner certaines affaires spéciales.
- 4Réunion d’avant conclave des cardinaux électeurs, destinée à définir le profil du futur pape.
- 5Division ecclésiastique dans les pays protestants.
- 6Regroupement de milliers de mâles abeilles domestiques en vol dans une zone de reproduction délimitée où les reines vierges viennent se faire féconder.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccongrégation,cnogrégation,cognrégation,conggrégation,congregation,congrgéation,congrrégation,congréagtion,congrégaiton,congrégatino,congrégationn,congrégatoin,congrégattion,congréggation,congrégtaion,congérgation,conngrégation,conrgégation,ocngrégation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for congrégation
Misspelling Variants of "congrégation"
Frequency rank: #11,021 in French
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