dérivation
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#26,707
in French word usage
Misspellings
15
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
dérivation is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de dériver des eaux. Pronounced \de.ʁi.va.sjɔ̃\. Often confused with déviation and dérogation.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dérivation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.ʁi.va.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #26,707 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for dérivation is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \de.ʁi.va.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #26,707 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.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 dérivation, with forms such as "ddérivation", "derivation", and "dréivation". 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, "déviation", "dérogation", 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 dérivation, spelled D-É-R-I-V-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
- 1Action de dériver des eaux.
- 2Action de faire sortir un mot d’un autre, en ajoutant un préfixe ou suffixe à son radical, sans que la catégorie grammaticale soit modifiée (dérivation endocentrique), ou bien avec une mutation de la catégorie grammaticale (dérivation exocentrique). La conversion lexicale, qui n'est pas proprement une dérivation, est parfois appelée dérivation impropre.
- 3Action de détourner une irritation, une cause morbide, de l’attirer d’une partie vers une autre où ses effets sont moins dangereux.
- 4Connexion entre deux points d'un circuit électrique.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddérivation,derivation,dréivation,déirvation,dériavtion,dérivaiton,dérivatino,dérivationn,dérivatoin,dérivattion,dérivtaion,dérivvation,dérrivation,dérviation,édrivation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for dérivation
Misspelling Variants of "dérivation"
Frequency rank: #26,707 in French
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Nearby French words
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