félicitations

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for félicitations is 13 letters long, classified as anintj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fe.li.si.ta.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,423 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Utilisé pour adresser ses félicitations à quelqu’un.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 20 likely wrong-spelling variants for félicitations, with forms such as "felicitations", "ffélicitations", and "fléicitations". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "félicitation", 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 félicitations, spelled F-É-L-I-C-I-T-A-T-I-O-N-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.