description
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,909
in French word usage
Misspellings
17
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
description is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de décrire, développement par lequel on décrit, on dépeint ; résultat de cette action. Pronounced \dɛs.kʁip.sjɔ̃\. It ranks #1,909 in French word frequency. Often confused with descriptive and descriptions.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | description |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɛs.kʁip.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #1,909 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for description is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dɛs.kʁip.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,909 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 description, with forms such as "ddescription", "decsription", and "desccription". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "descriptive", "descriptions", "descriptif", 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 description, spelled D-E-S-C-R-I-P-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 décrire, développement par lequel on décrit, on dépeint ; résultat de cette action.
- 2Inventaire qui indique le nombre et la qualité des meubles, papiers, etc., qui se trouvent dans une maison.
- 3Livre qui fait connaître l’état présent d’une région, d’un pays, d’une partie du monde.
- 4Définition imparfaite.
- 5Action de décrire, de tracer une ligne, une surface.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddescription,decsription,desccription,descirption,descripiton,descripption,descriptino,descriptionn,descriptoin,descripttion,descritpion,descrpition,descrription,desrciption,desscription,dsecription,edscription
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for description
Misspelling Variants of "description"
Frequency rank: #1,909 in French
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