formation
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#603
in French word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
formation is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de former ou résultat de cette action. Pronounced \fɔʁ.ma.sjɔ̃\. It ranks #603 in French word frequency. Often confused with formations and formulation.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | formation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɔʁ.ma.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #603 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for formation is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fɔʁ.ma.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #603 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 13 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for formation, with forms such as "fformation", "fomration", and "foramtion". 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 also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "formations", "formulation", "fondation", 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 formation, spelled F-O-R-M-A-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Action de former ou résultat de cette action.
- 2Ensemble de personnes qui partagent une même doctrine ou un même but.
- 3Groupe de personnes, sous-ensemble d’un autre.
- 4Groupe de musiciens qui jouent ensemble.
- 5Mouvement par lequel une troupe prend une certaine disposition, état où elle se trouve après cette disposition.
- 6Compagnie ou régiment ainsi formé, ou tout groupement militaire.
- 7Équipe.
- 8Ensemble des couches ou portions de terrains, de gîtes quelconques de substances minérales qui paraissent dater de la même époque.
- 9Forme de végétation.
- 10Manière dont un mot se forme d’un autre mot, ou dont un mot passe par ses diverses formes.
- 11Processus par lequel un enfant apprend graduellement les compétences, intellectuelles, émotives et psychologiques, qui l'aideront à devenir un adulte.
- 12Ensemble d’apprentissages et d’expériences utiles pour un poste.
- 13Modification de la forme d’un arbre, par intervention de taille ou par la végétation environnante.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: fformation,fomration,foramtion,formaiton,formatino,formationn,formatoin,formattion,formmation,formtaion,forrmation,fromation,ofrmation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for formation
Misspelling Variants of "formation"
Frequency rank: #603 in French
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