feedback

/\fid.bak\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#36,389

in French word usage

Misspellings

12

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

feedback is aFrenchnoun. It means: Mécanisme par lequel une partie de la sortie d’un système est réinjectée à l’entrée pour influer sur son comportement (stabilisation, correction d’erreur, etc.). Pronounced \fid.bak\.

Key facts for feedback
PropertyValue
Headwordfeedback
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\fid.bak\
Letters8
Frequency rank#36,389
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of feedback in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for feedback is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fid.bak\. Corpus data places it at rank #36,389 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for feedback, with forms such as "efedback", "fedback", and "fedeback". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 feedback, spelled F-E-E-D-B-A-C-K, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Mécanisme par lequel une partie de la sortie d’un système est réinjectée à l’entrée pour influer sur son comportement (stabilisation, correction d’erreur, etc.).
  2. 2
    Retour adressé à une personne ou à un groupe sur une action, une production ou un comportement (commentaire, évaluation, signal de confirmation).
  3. 3
    Réinjection du son amplifié dans le micro, produisant un sifflement.
  4. 4
    Mécanisme de régulation où un produit d’une voie physiologique module l’activité de cette même voie.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: efedback,fedback,fedeback,feebdack,feedabck,feedbacck,feedbackk,feedbakc,feedbback,feedbcak,feeddback,ffeedback

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for feedback

Misspelling Variants of "feedback"

efedback8fedback7fedeback8feebdack8feedabck8feedbacck9feedbackk9feedbakc8
Misspelling Variants of "feedback"

Frequency rank: #36,389 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "feedback"?
"feedback" is spelled F-E-E-D-B-A-C-K. The IPA pronunciation is \fid.bak\.
What does "feedback" mean?
As a noun, "feedback" means: Mécanisme par lequel une partie de la sortie d’un système est réinjectée à l’entrée pour influer sur son comportement (stabilisation, correction d’erreur, etc.).
What are common misspellings of "feedback"?
Common misspellings include "efedback", "fedback", "fedeback", "feebdack", "feedabck". The correct spelling is "feedback".
How do you pronounce "feedback"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "feedback" is \fid.bak\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "feedback" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.