consolation
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#17,391
in French word usage
Misspellings
16
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
consolation is aFrenchnoun. It means: Soulagement donné à l’affliction, à la douleur, au déplaisir de quelqu’un. Pronounced \kɔ̃.sɔ.la.sjɔ̃\. Often confused with convocation and consommation.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | consolation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.sɔ.la.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #17,391 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for consolation is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃.sɔ.la.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #17,391 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 16 documented wrong-spelling variants for consolation, with forms such as "cconsolation", "cnosolation", and "connsolation". 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, "convocation", "consommation", "consultation", 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 consolation, spelled C-O-N-S-O-L-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
- 1Soulagement donné à l’affliction, à la douleur, au déplaisir de quelqu’un.
- 2Véritable sujet de satisfaction et de joie.
- 3Discours ou raisons que l’on emploie pour consoler quelqu’un.
- 4La chose ou de la personne même qui console.
- 5Eau-de-vie.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cconsolation,cnosolation,connsolation,conoslation,consloation,consoaltion,consolaiton,consolatino,consolationn,consolatoin,consolattion,consollation,consoltaion,conssolation,cosnolation,ocnsolation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for consolation
Misspelling Variants of "consolation"
Frequency rank: #17,391 in French
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