définition
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,996
in French word usage
Misspellings
15
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
définition is aFrenchnoun. It means: Formule par laquelle on définit une chose ; énoncé des attributs, des qualités qui la distinguent. Pronounced \de.fi.ni.sjɔ̃\. It ranks #1,996 in French word frequency. Often confused with définitive and définitions.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | définition |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.fi.ni.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #1,996 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for définition is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \de.fi.ni.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,996 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 15 documented wrong-spelling variants for définition, with forms such as "ddéfinition", "definition", and "dféinition". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "définitive", "définitions", "définitif", 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 définition, spelled D-É-F-I-N-I-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Formule par laquelle on définit une chose ; énoncé des attributs, des qualités qui la distinguent.
- 2Sens qu’on attribue aux mots et qui peut être arbitraire.
- 3Décision qui précise les affirmations théologiques et règle la foi.
- 4Nombre de pixels d’une image matricielle, produite par un dispositif affichant des images (écrans, imprimantes…) ou en capturant (appareils photo, caméras, scanneurs…). Souvent exprimée sous la forme d’une multiplication L×H, où L est le nombre de pixels en largeur et H le nombre de pixels en hauteur, et dont les multiplicandes suivent généralement des ratios d’aspect standardisés, on la trouve aussi souvent exprimée sous la forme d’une approximation en mégapixels de cette multiplication.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddéfinition,definition,dféinition,déffinition,défiintion,définiiton,définitino,définitionn,définitoin,définittion,définnition,défintiion,défniition,déifnition,édfinition
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for définition
Misspelling Variants of "définition"
Frequency rank: #1,996 in French
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