consultation

/\kɔ̃.syl.ta.sjɔ̃\/ noun

Letters

12 characters

Frequency Rank

#4,657

in French word usage

Misspellings

18

tracked variants

Confusables

5

similar word pairs

consultation is aFrenchnoun. It means: Conférence que l’on tient pour consulter sur quelque affaire ou sur une maladie. Pronounced \kɔ̃.syl.ta.sjɔ̃\. It ranks #4,657 in French word frequency. Often confused with consultative and consultations.

Key facts for consultation
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Headwordconsultation
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kɔ̃.syl.ta.sjɔ̃\
Letters12
Frequency rank#4,657
Misspellings tracked18
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for consultation is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃.syl.ta.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,657 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 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 consultation, with forms such as "cconsultation", "cnosultation", and "connsultation". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "consultative", "consultations", "consultatif", 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 consultation, spelled C-O-N-S-U-L-T-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

  1. 1
    Conférence que l’on tient pour consulter sur quelque affaire ou sur une maladie.
  2. 2
    Sondage, vote ou référendum.
  3. 3
    Avis verbal ou écrit que les avocats ou les médecins donnent touchant l’affaire, touchant la maladie sur laquelle on les consulte.
  4. 4
    Lieu et heure auxquels un médecin reçoit les malades.
  5. 5
    Procédure engagée par un client visant à recueillir des offres pour un marché ouvert à la concurrence ; appel d’offres.
  6. 6
    Le fait de lire un document.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: cconsultation,cnosultation,connsultation,conslutation,conssultation,consulattion,consulltation,consultaiton,consultatino,consultationn,consultatoin,consultattion,consulttaion,consulttation,consutlation,conusltation,cosnultation,ocnsultation

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for consultation

Misspelling Variants of "consultation"

cconsultation13cnosultation12connsultation13conslutation12conssultation13consulattion12consulltation13consultaiton12
Misspelling Variants of "consultation"

Frequency rank: #4,657 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "consultation"?
"consultation" is spelled C-O-N-S-U-L-T-A-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ̃.syl.ta.sjɔ̃\.
What does "consultation" mean?
As a noun, "consultation" means: Conférence que l’on tient pour consulter sur quelque affaire ou sur une maladie.
What words are commonly confused with "consultation"?
"consultation" is commonly confused with "consultative", "consultations", "consultatif". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "consultation"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "consultation" is \kɔ̃.syl.ta.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "consultation" come from?
"consultation" 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.