elimination
\ɪˌlɪm.ɪˈneɪ.ʃən\
The verdict
“elimination” is uncommon French (frequency #60,749 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,749
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Élimination, abrogation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-elimination · elimination · French
elimination · rank #60,749 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,749
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH Ellington
Nearest frequency peer: Ellington (+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 « elimination »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- elimination
elimination
39,252 corpus weight
- Ellington
Ellington
39,251 corpus weight
- emmerdant
emmerdant
39,250 corpus weight
- encastrer
encastrer
39,249 corpus weight
- encercle
encercle
39,248 corpus weight
- encrage
encrage
39,247 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « elimination » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | elimination |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɪˌlɪm.ɪˈneɪ.ʃən\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #60,749 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « elimination » en français
Rare enough to double-check
elimination is uncommon French at frequency #60,749 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɪˌlɪm.ɪˈneɪ.ʃən\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Élimination, abrogation.".
Zero misspellings are on record for elimination in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is elimination, spelled E-L-I-M-I-N-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Élimination, abrogation.
Synonyms
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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