diplomation
\di.plɔ.ma.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“diplomation” is uncommon French (frequency #78,334 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,334
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Obtention d’un diplôme, généralement universitaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-diplomation · diplomation · French
diplomation · rank #78,334 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,334
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH différant
Nearest frequency peer: différant (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « diplomation »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Differdange
Differdange
21,669 corpus weight
- différant
différant
21,668 corpus weight
- diplomation
diplomation
21,667 corpus weight
- disserte
disserte
21,666 corpus weight
- dithyrambiq…
dithyrambiques
21,665 corpus weight
- Djurdjura
Djurdjura
21,664 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « diplomation » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | diplomation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \di.plɔ.ma.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #78,334 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « diplomation » en français
Rare enough to double-check
diplomation is uncommon French at frequency #78,334 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \di.plɔ.ma.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
diplomation has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is diplomation, spelled D-I-P-L-O-M-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Obtention d’un diplôme, généralement universitaire.
- 2Une des « macro-fonctions » des systèmes de formation qui sont : la prescription (micro, macro), l'information-orientation-conseil, la production, la diplomation et l'évaluation (micro, macro).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how diplomation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je crois deviner ce que « diplomation » pourrait signifier, mais j’ai cherché en vain ce mot dans mon Larousse grand format et mon Robert pour tous. Il faudra en tenir compte, en plus du mot « défusion », dans les prochaines versions de ces deux ouvrages.
L’écart de richesse est là, dans cet écart de diplomation et de littératie, qui contrecarre l’innovation en entreprise, qui limite l’investissement en modernisation, qui freine la hausse de la productivité, qui compromet l’avancement professionnel, qui accroît la vulnérabilité économique.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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