détermination
Letters
13 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,553
in French word usage
Misspellings
20
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
détermination is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de déterminer, de délimiter avec précision, de caractériser sans ambiguïté, clairement. Pronounced \de.tɛʁ.mi.na.sjɔ̃\. It ranks #5,553 in French word frequency.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | détermination |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.tɛʁ.mi.na.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #5,553 |
| Misspellings tracked | 20 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for détermination is 13 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \de.tɛʁ.mi.na.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,553 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 20 documented wrong-spelling variants for détermination, with forms such as "ddétermination", "determination", and "dtéermination". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 détermination, spelled D-É-T-E-R-M-I-N-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 déterminer, de délimiter avec précision, de caractériser sans ambiguïté, clairement.
- 2Résolution qu’on prend après avoir balancé entre plusieurs partis.
- 3Action par laquelle une chose, également susceptible de plusieurs qualités, de plusieurs manières d’être, est déterminée à recevoir l’une plutôt que l’autre.
- 4Engagement d’une cellule ou d’un groupe de cellules dans un programme particulier de différenciation ou de développement.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddétermination,determination,dtéermination,déetrmination,détemrination,déterimnation,détermiantion,déterminaiton,déterminatino,déterminationn,déterminatoin,déterminattion,déterminnation,détermintaion,détermmination,détermniation,déterrmination,détremination,déttermination,édtermination
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for détermination
Misspelling Variants of "détermination"
Frequency rank: #5,553 in French
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Nearby French words
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