conversation

/\kɔ̃.vɛʁ.sa.sjɔ̃\/ noun

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.

Key facts for conversation
PropertyValue
Headwordconversation
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kɔ̃.vɛʁ.sa.sjɔ̃\
Letters12
Frequency rank#2,269
Misspellings tracked18
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Action pour deux ou plusieurs personnes de discuter ensemble dans une optique dénuée de confrontation.
  2. 2
    À l'échelle d'une société, échange de points de vue respectueux et convenus.
  3. 3
    Meuble 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.
  4. 4
    Échange d’informations entre au moins deux individus au travers des canaux IRC.
  5. 5
    échange entre une machine et une personne qui lui répond.

Synonyms

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"

cconversation13cnoversation12conevrsation12connversation13converastion12converrsation13conversaiton12conversatino12
Misspelling Variants of "conversation"

Frequency rank: #2,269 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "conversation"?
"conversation" is spelled C-O-N-V-E-R-S-A-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ̃.vɛʁ.sa.sjɔ̃\.
What does "conversation" mean?
As a noun, "conversation" means: Action pour deux ou plusieurs personnes de discuter ensemble dans une optique dénuée de confrontation.
What words are commonly confused with "conversation"?
"conversation" is commonly confused with "conversion", "conversations", "conservation". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "conversation"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "conversation" is \kɔ̃.vɛʁ.sa.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "conversation" come from?
"conversation" 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.