exclamation
French, noun/ɛk.skla.ma.sjɔ̃/
exclamation is spelled E-X-C-L-A-M-A-T-I-O-N (11 letters) and appears 1.1 times per million words in written French, the 29,273rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Exclamation is a French feminine noun meaning “exclamation (cry of joy)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Cri de joie, d’admiration, de surprise, d’indignation, etc”.
What does exclamation mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineexclamation (cry of joy)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Cri de joie, d’admiration, de surprise, d’indignation, etc.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of exclamation
- exclamations plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce exclamation?
- /ɛk.skla.ma.sjɔ̃/
- \ɛk.skla.ma.sjɔ̃\
- [ɛk.skla.ma.sjɔ̃]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to exclamation
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is exclamation in French?
exclamation appears 1.1 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).