consignation
\kɔ̃.si.ɲa.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“consignation” is uncommon French (frequency #55,164 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,164
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dépôt d’une somme ou d’autre chose entre les mains d’une personne publique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-consignation · consignation · French
consignation · rank #55,164 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,164
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH conseillerai
Nearest frequency peer: conseillerai (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « consignation »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- compilées
compilées
44,840 corpus weight
- Conchita
Conchita
44,839 corpus weight
- conseillerai
conseillerai
44,838 corpus weight
- consignation
consignation
44,837 corpus weight
- construise
construise
44,836 corpus weight
- contingence
contingence
44,835 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « consignation » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | consignation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.si.ɲa.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #55,164 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « consignation » en français
Rare enough to double-check
consignation is uncommon French at frequency #55,164 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ̃.si.ɲa.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for consignation in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is consignation, spelled C-O-N-S-I-G-N-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Dépôt d’une somme ou d’autre chose entre les mains d’une personne publique.
- 2Mise par écrit, mention, inscription, spécialement dans une pièce officielle.
- 3Action de déposer, préalablement à certains actes, le montant de l’amende qui peut être encourue par l’issue d’un procès.
- 4Condamnation d’une installation technique, électrique ou autre, blocage d’une source de tension à l’aide d’un cadenas que l’on ajoute sur un disjoncteur en mode éteint.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how consignation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Consignation judiciaire.
Faire une consignation au greffe.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).