flottation
French, noun/flɔ.ta.sjɔ̃/
flottation is spelled F-L-O-T-T-A-T-I-O-N (10 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written French, the 114,550th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Flottation is a French feminine noun meaning “floating (all senses)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action de flotter”.
What does flottation mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininefloating (all senses)
- 2
feminineflotation (industrial process)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action de flotter. 2. méthode utilisée en minéralurgie pour séparer des minéraux entre eux. 3. Fluctuation du cours d'une action, en particulier au moment de son introduction en bourse.
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 flottation
- flottations plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce flottation?
- /flɔ.ta.sjɔ̃/
- \flɔ.ta.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 flottation
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is flottation in French?
flottation appears about once in every 12 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).