fragmentation

/\fʁaɡ.mɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃\/ noun

Letters

13 characters

Frequency Rank

#23,557

in French word usage

Misspellings

20

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

fragmentation is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de fragmenter, ou fait d’être réduit à l’état de fragments. Pronounced \fʁaɡ.mɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃\.

Key facts for fragmentation
PropertyValue
Headwordfragmentation
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\fʁaɡ.mɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃\
Letters13
Frequency rank#23,557
Misspellings tracked20
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for fragmentation is 13 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fʁaɡ.mɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #23,557 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 20 documented wrong-spelling variants for fragmentation, with forms such as "fargmentation", "ffragmentation", and "fragemntation". 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 fragmentation, spelled F-R-A-G-M-E-N-T-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

  1. 1
    Action de fragmenter, ou fait d’être réduit à l’état de fragments.
  2. 2
    Morcellement d’un ensemble abstrait, d’une entité immatérielle qui avait une cohérence interne.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: fargmentation,ffragmentation,fragemntation,fraggmentation,fragmenattion,fragmenntation,fragmentaiton,fragmentatino,fragmentationn,fragmentatoin,fragmentattion,fragmenttaion,fragmenttation,fragmetnation,fragmmentation,fragmnetation,framgentation,frgamentation,frragmentation,rfagmentation

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for fragmentation

Misspelling Variants of "fragmentation"

fargmentation13ffragmentation14fragemntation13fraggmentation14fragmenattion13fragmenntation14fragmentaiton13fragmentatino13
Misspelling Variants of "fragmentation"

Frequency rank: #23,557 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "fragmentation"?
"fragmentation" is spelled F-R-A-G-M-E-N-T-A-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \fʁaɡ.mɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃\.
What does "fragmentation" mean?
As a noun, "fragmentation" means: Action de fragmenter, ou fait d’être réduit à l’état de fragments.
What are common misspellings of "fragmentation"?
Common misspellings include "fargmentation", "ffragmentation", "fragemntation", "fraggmentation", "fragmenattion". The correct spelling is "fragmentation".
How do you pronounce "fragmentation"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "fragmentation" is \fʁaɡ.mɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "fragmentation" come from?
"fragmentation" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.