curation
\ky.ʁa.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“curation” is uncommon French (frequency #73,878 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,878
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Traitement d’une maladie, d’une plaie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-curation · curation · French
curation · rank #73,878 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,878
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cuivrée
Nearest frequency peer: cuivrée (-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 « curation »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- CTT
CTT
26,126 corpus weight
- cuillers
cuillers
26,125 corpus weight
- cuivrée
cuivrée
26,124 corpus weight
- curation
curation
26,123 corpus weight
- cédons
cédons
26,121 corpus weight
- damer
damer
26,120 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « curation » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | curation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ky.ʁa.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #73,878 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « curation » en français
Rare enough to double-check
curation is uncommon French at frequency #73,878 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ky.ʁa.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for curation in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is curation, spelled C-U-R-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Traitement d’une maladie, d’une plaie.
- 2Collection d’œuvres d’art ou d’artefacts.
- 3Mise à jour manuelle d’une base de données, d’un site Internet, voire du web.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how curation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un topique des plus efficaces dans la curation d’un grand nombre de plaies, est l’emplâtre appelée de Nuremberg.
Sur l’emblématique Route 66, du côté de Flagstaff, le High Country Motor Lodge détonne avec son style vintage, sa déco léchée et sa curation de beaux livres.
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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