diminution
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,933
in French word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
diminution is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de diminuer, fait de devenir moindre. Pronounced \di.mi.ny.sjɔ̃\. It ranks #4,933 in French word frequency. Often confused with domination and divination.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | diminution |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \di.mi.ny.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #4,933 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for diminution is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \di.mi.ny.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,933 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for diminution, with forms such as "ddiminution", "diimnution", and "diminnution". 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, "domination", "divination", "diminutif", 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 diminution, spelled D-I-M-I-N-U-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 diminuer, fait de devenir moindre.
- 2Action de diminuer, fait de devenir moindre.
- 3Action de diminuer, fait de devenir moindre.
- 4Action de diminuer, fait de devenir moindre.
- 5Action de diminuer, fait de devenir moindre.
- 6Réduction du nombre de mailles d’un rang en cours de tricotage.
- 7Atténuation, adoucissement, apaisement.
- 8Atténuation, adoucissement, apaisement.
- 9Ornement, utilisé à la Renaissance et à l’époque baroque, consistant à lier deux notes longues par une succession de notes jouées à un rythme régulier, souvent improvisées, les notes ajoutées ayant donc une durée plus courte que les notes originelles, et représentant en général des intervalles plus petits.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddiminution,diimnution,diminnution,dimintuion,diminuiton,diminutino,diminutionn,diminutoin,diminuttion,dimiuntion,dimminution,dimniution,dmiinution,idminution
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for diminution
Misspelling Variants of "diminution"
Frequency rank: #4,933 in French
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