crémation

/\kʁe.ma.sjɔ̃\/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#37,753

in French word usage

Misspellings

14

tracked variants

Confusables

2

similar word pairs

crémation is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de brûler les corps des morts. Pronounced \kʁe.ma.sjɔ̃\. Often confused with creation and créations.

Key facts for crémation
PropertyValue
Headwordcrémation
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kʁe.ma.sjɔ̃\
Letters9
Frequency rank#37,753
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for crémation is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kʁe.ma.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #37,753 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Action de brûler les corps des morts.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for crémation, with forms such as "ccrémation", "cremation", and "crméation". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "creation", "créations", 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 crémation, spelled C-R-É-M-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 de brûler les corps des morts.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ccrémation,cremation,crméation,crrémation,créamtion,crémaiton,crématino,crémationn,crématoin,crémattion,crémmation,crémtaion,cérmation,rcémation

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for crémation

Misspelling Variants of "crémation"

ccrémation10cremation9crméation9crrémation10créamtion9crémaiton9crématino9crémationn10
Misspelling Variants of "crémation"

Frequency rank: #37,753 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "crémation"?
"crémation" is spelled C-R-É-M-A-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \kʁe.ma.sjɔ̃\.
What does "crémation" mean?
As a noun, "crémation" means: Action de brûler les corps des morts.
What words are commonly confused with "crémation"?
"crémation" is commonly confused with "creation", "créations". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "crémation"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "crémation" is \kʁe.ma.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "crémation" come from?
"crémation" 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.