contextualisation
\kɔ̃.tɛk.stɥa.li.za.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“contextualisation” is uncommon French (frequency #73,034 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,034
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fait de contextualiser, de replacer quelque chose dans son contexte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contextualisation · contextualisation · French
contextualisation · rank #73,034 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,034
- LEN-MEGA 17 letters
- VOW-8 8 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH contentieuse
Nearest frequency peer: contentieuse (-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 « contextualisation »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- consentez
consentez
26,970 corpus weight
- considérero…
considérerons
26,969 corpus weight
- contentieuse
contentieuse
26,968 corpus weight
- contextuali…
contextualisation
26,967 corpus weight
- contribuaie…
contribuaient
26,965 corpus weight
- coronaires
coronaires
26,964 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « contextualisation » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contextualisation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tɛk.stɥa.li.za.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Frequency rank | #73,034 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « contextualisation » en français
Rare enough to double-check
contextualisation is uncommon French at frequency #73,034 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ̃.tɛk.stɥa.li.za.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fait de contextualiser, de replacer quelque chose dans son contexte.".
contextualisation doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is contextualisation, spelled C-O-N-T-E-X-T-U-A-L-I-S-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Fait de contextualiser, de replacer quelque chose dans son contexte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how contextualisation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La pensée adhère à son objet, nous avons suffisamment insisté sur ce point. La phase de contextualisation est donc cruciale.
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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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