évolution
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,196
in French word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
évolution is aFrenchnoun. It means: Changement progressif ou graduel d'un être, d'une chose, d'un phénomène ou d'un système. Pronounced \e.vɔ.ly.sjɔ̃\. It ranks #1,196 in French word frequency. Often confused with évolutive and évolutions.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | évolution |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.vɔ.ly.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #1,196 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for évolution is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.vɔ.ly.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,196 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for évolution, with forms such as "evolution", "véolution", and "éovlution". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "évolutive", "évolutions", "évolutif", and more, 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 évolution, spelled É-V-O-L-U-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Changement progressif ou graduel d'un être, d'une chose, d'un phénomène ou d'un système.
- 2Changements d’idées ou de conduite des personnes ou des collectivités.
- 3Processus par lequel, au fil des générations, les caractères héréditaires des populations changent sous l’effet de mécanismes tels que la sélection naturelle, la dérive génétique, la mutation ou le flux de gènes. Ces changements peuvent conduire à l’adaptation, à la diversification, à la simplification ou à la disparition d’espèces.
- 4Mouvement que font des troupes pour prendre une nouvelle disposition.
- 5Tout mouvement de personnes, de choses ou d’animaux.
- 6Développement successif, intérieur et spontané de l’être.
- 7Modification du cours d’une maladie.
- 8Action de sortir en se déroulant.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: evolution,véolution,éovlution,évloution,évollution,évoltuion,évoluiton,évolutino,évolutionn,évolutoin,évoluttion,évoultion,évvolution
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for évolution
Misspelling Variants of "évolution"
Frequency rank: #1,196 in French
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