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documentation

French, noun/dɔ.ky.mɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/

documentation is spelled D-O-C-U-M-E-N-T-A-T-I-O-N (13 letters) and appears 10 times per million words in written French, the 6,605th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Documentation is a French feminine noun meaning “documentation (written account)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ensemble de documents recueillis sur une question”.

What does documentation mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    femininedocumentation (written account)

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Ensemble de documents recueillis sur une question. 2. Action de consulter des documents. 3. Document.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of documentation

  • documentations plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce documentation?

  • /dɔ.ky.mɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/
  • \dɔ.ky.mɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to documentation

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is documentation in French?

documentation appears 10 times per million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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