éviration
\e.vi.ʁa.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“éviration” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Castration ; ablation des organes génitaux mâles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-eviration · éviration · French
éviration · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "É" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | éviration |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.vi.ʁa.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
éviration is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.vi.ʁa.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for éviration in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is éviration, spelled É-V-I-R-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Castration ; ablation des organes génitaux mâles.
- 2Inversion sexuelle acquise
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how éviration appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On substitua d’abord la castration à l’éviration, à cause des moindres dangers qu’elle présentait. La circoncision, la seule mutilation à laquelle s’astreignaient scrupuleusement les prêtres égyptiens, pouvait être une forme plus atténuée encore de l’éviration, et ce qui tendrait à le prouver, c’est que l’empereur Élagabale, qui était grand prêtre de la d…
Comment , enfin, prendre position sur l’éviration, alors qu'aucun grand castrat ne nous a confié ce qu'il ressentait au plus profond de lui-même ?
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.