fabulation
French, noun/fa.by.la.sjɔ̃/
fabulation is spelled F-A-B-U-L-A-T-I-O-N (10 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written French, the 107,057th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fabulation is a French feminine noun meaning “fabulation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Récit inventé et présenté comme véridique”.
What does fabulation mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininefabulation
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Récit inventé et présenté comme véridique. 2. Action d’inventer et de raconter un tel récit. 3. Habitude pathologique de certaines personnes de raconter des récits imaginaires comme s'il s'agissait de faits réels et sans en avoir conscience.
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 fabulation
- fabulations plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fabulation?
- /fa.by.la.sjɔ̃/
- \fa.by.la.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 fabulation
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fabulation in French?
fabulation appears about once in every 11 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).