estimation
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | estimation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛs.ti.ma.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #6,392 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Action d’attribuer un prix à quelque chose d’existant, de l’évaluer, d’en estimer la valeur.
- 2Évaluation d'une quantité.
- 3Opérations de chiffrage :
- 4Prédiction d’une grandeur, une performance, le coût ou la durée d’une tâche d’un projet.
- 5Discipline 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.
- 6Résultat, chiffre résultant de cette opération, coût présenté sur un devis.
- 7Offre commerciale, budget.
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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"
Frequency rank: #6,392 in French
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