estimation

/\ɛs.ti.ma.sjɔ̃\/ noun

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#6,392

in French word usage

Misspellings

14

tracked variants

Confusables

1

similar word pairs

estimation is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action d’attribuer un prix à quelque chose d’existant, de l’évaluer, d’en estimer la valeur. Pronounced \ɛs.ti.ma.sjɔ̃\. It ranks #6,392 in French word frequency. Often confused with estimations.

Key facts for estimation
PropertyValue
Headwordestimation
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɛs.ti.ma.sjɔ̃\
Letters10
Frequency rank#6,392
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of estimation in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for estimation is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛs.ti.ma.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,392 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 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 estimation, with forms such as "esitmation", "esstimation", and "estiamtion". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "estimations", 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 estimation, spelled E-S-T-I-M-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

  1. 1
    Action d’attribuer un prix à quelque chose d’existant, de l’évaluer, d’en estimer la valeur.
  2. 2
    Évaluation d'une quantité.
  3. 3
    Opérations de chiffrage :
  4. 4
    Prédiction d’une grandeur, une performance, le coût ou la durée d’une tâche d’un projet.
  5. 5
    Discipline ou fonction remplie par le personnel qui réalise ces chiffrages, qu’il soit l’exécutant de la tâche estimée ou affecté uniquement à cette fonction.
  6. 6
    Résultat, chiffre résultant de cette opération, coût présenté sur un devis.
  7. 7
    Offre commerciale, budget.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: esitmation,esstimation,estiamtion,estimaiton,estimatino,estimationn,estimatoin,estimattion,estimmation,estimtaion,estmiation,esttimation,etsimation,setimation

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for estimation

Misspelling Variants of "estimation"

esitmation10esstimation11estiamtion10estimaiton10estimatino10estimationn11estimatoin10estimattion11
Misspelling Variants of "estimation"

Frequency rank: #6,392 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "estimation"?
"estimation" is spelled E-S-T-I-M-A-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛs.ti.ma.sjɔ̃\.
What does "estimation" mean?
As a noun, "estimation" means: Action d’attribuer un prix à quelque chose d’existant, de l’évaluer, d’en estimer la valeur.
What words are commonly confused with "estimation"?
"estimation" is commonly confused with "estimations". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "estimation"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "estimation" is \ɛs.ti.ma.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "estimation" come from?
"estimation" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.