conversation
Letters
12 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,269
in French word usage
Misspellings
18
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
conversation is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action pour deux ou plusieurs personnes de discuter ensemble dans une optique dénuée de confrontation. Pronounced \kɔ̃.vɛʁ.sa.sjɔ̃\. It ranks #2,269 in French word frequency. Often confused with conversion and conversations.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | conversation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.vɛʁ.sa.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #2,269 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for conversation is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃.vɛʁ.sa.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,269 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 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 conversation, with forms such as "cconversation", "cnoversation", and "conevrsation". 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, "conversion", "conversations", "conservation", 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 conversation, spelled C-O-N-V-E-R-S-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
- 1Action pour deux ou plusieurs personnes de discuter ensemble dans une optique dénuée de confrontation.
- 2À l'échelle d'une société, échange de points de vue respectueux et convenus.
- 3Meuble constitué de deux fauteuils en sens inverse destinés à converser. Lorsque ceux-ci sont attachés entre eux en forme de S, il s'agit d'un confident, lequel peut d'ailleurs comprendre aussi trois sièges et se nomme alors un indiscret.
- 4Échange d’informations entre au moins deux individus au travers des canaux IRC.
- 5échange entre une machine et une personne qui lui répond.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cconversation,cnoversation,conevrsation,connversation,converastion,converrsation,conversaiton,conversatino,conversationn,conversatoin,conversattion,converssation,converstaion,convesration,convresation,convversation,covnersation,ocnversation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for conversation
Misspelling Variants of "conversation"
Frequency rank: #2,269 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our French index: