constitution
Letters
12 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,810
in French word usage
Misspellings
18
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
constitution is aFrenchnoun. It means: Manière dont une chose est constituée, dont ses éléments combinés forment un tout. Pronounced \kɔ̃.sti.ty.sjɔ̃\. It ranks #1,810 in French word frequency. Often confused with constitutive and constitutions.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | constitution |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.sti.ty.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #1,810 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for constitution is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃.sti.ty.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,810 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 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 constitution, with forms such as "cconstitution", "cnostitution", and "connstitution". 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, "constitutive", "constitutions", "constitutif", 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 constitution, spelled C-O-N-S-T-I-T-U-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Manière dont une chose est constituée, dont ses éléments combinés forment un tout.
- 2État général du corps humain, complexion.
- 3À Donjons & Dragons, et d’autres jeux de rôle, caractéristique (valeur chiffrée) représentant la résistance physique d’un personnage contre les maladies et les blessures, l’endurance à la fatigue (voir l’expression « être de bonne constitution »).
- 4Loi ou charte fondamentale qui détermine la forme du gouvernement, qui règle les droits politiques des citoyens et qui dicte la politique d’un État ou d’un groupe d’États.
- 5Ordonnance, loi, règlement, législation ancienne en matière ecclésiastique.
- 6Fait de créer, de fonder quelque chose.
- 7Constitution d’une entité moléculaire.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cconstitution,cnostitution,connstitution,consittution,consstitution,constittuion,constittution,constituiton,constitutino,constitutionn,constitutoin,constituttion,constiuttion,consttitution,consttiution,contsitution,cosntitution,ocnstitution
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for constitution
Misspelling Variants of "constitution"
Frequency rank: #1,810 in French
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