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fabrication

French, noun/fa.bʁi.ka.sjɔ̃/

fabrication is spelled F-A-B-R-I-C-A-T-I-O-N (11 letters) and appears 30 times per million words in written French, the 2,670th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fabrication is a French feminine noun meaning “manufacture, manufacturing” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action de fabriquer ou résultat de cette action”.

What does fabrication mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    femininemanufacture, manufacturing

  2. 2

    femininefabrication

  3. 3

    feminineproduction

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Action de fabriquer ou résultat de cette action. 2. Procédé ou manière de fabriquer quelque chose de façon industrielle. 3. Action de façonner les pensées ou le comportement d’une personne ou d’un groupe de personnes. 4. Action d’inventer quelque chose.

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 fabrication

  • fabrications plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce fabrication?

  • /fa.bʁi.ka.sjɔ̃/
  • \fa.bʁi.ka.sjɔ̃\
  • [fa.bʁi.ka.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 fabrication

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is fabrication in French?

fabrication appears 30 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).

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