constitution

/\kɔ̃.sti.ty.sjɔ̃\/ noun

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.

Key facts for constitution
PropertyValue
Headwordconstitution
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kɔ̃.sti.ty.sjɔ̃\
Letters12
Frequency rank#1,810
Misspellings tracked18
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of constitution in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Manière dont une chose est constituée, dont ses éléments combinés forment un tout.
  2. 2
    État général du corps humain, complexion.
  3. 3
    À 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 »).
  4. 4
    Loi 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.
  5. 5
    Ordonnance, loi, règlement, législation ancienne en matière ecclésiastique.
  6. 6
    Fait de créer, de fonder quelque chose.
  7. 7
    Constitution 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"

cconstitution13cnostitution12connstitution13consittution12consstitution13constittuion12constittution13constituiton12
Misspelling Variants of "constitution"

Frequency rank: #1,810 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "constitution"?
"constitution" is spelled C-O-N-S-T-I-T-U-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ̃.sti.ty.sjɔ̃\.
What does "constitution" mean?
As a noun, "constitution" means: Manière dont une chose est constituée, dont ses éléments combinés forment un tout.
What words are commonly confused with "constitution"?
"constitution" is commonly confused with "constitutive", "constitutions", "constitutif". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "constitution"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "constitution" is \kɔ̃.sti.ty.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "constitution" come from?
"constitution" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.