dégradation
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,429
in French word usage
Misspellings
17
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
dégradation is aFrenchnoun. It means: Destitution, privation infamante du grade, de la dignité que l’on a. Pronounced \de.ɡʁa.da.sjɔ̃\. It ranks #7,429 in French word frequency. Often confused with dégradations.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dégradation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.ɡʁa.da.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #7,429 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for dégradation is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \de.ɡʁa.da.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,429 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 17 documented wrong-spelling variants for dégradation, with forms such as "ddégradation", "degradation", and "dgéradation". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "dégradations", 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 dégradation, spelled D-É-G-R-A-D-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
- 1Destitution, privation infamante du grade, de la dignité que l’on a.
- 2Avilissement.
- 3Dégât, détérioration plus ou moins considérable qu’on fait dans une propriété publique ou privée, dans une maison, etc.
- 4Dépérissement où est une chose, dommage qu’elle a éprouvé par l’effet de la vétusté ou d'un accident.
- 5Affaiblissement graduel de la lumière, des ombres, des couleurs dans un dégradé.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddégradation,degradation,dgéradation,dégardation,déggradation,dégraadtion,dégradaiton,dégradatino,dégradationn,dégradatoin,dégradattion,dégraddation,dégradtaion,dégrdaation,dégrradation,dérgadation,édgradation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for dégradation
Misspelling Variants of "dégradation"
Frequency rank: #7,429 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter D in our French index: