frustration

/\fʁys.tʁa.sjɔ̃\/ noun

Letters

11 characters

Frequency Rank

#10,164

in French word usage

Misspellings

17

tracked variants

Confusables

1

similar word pairs

frustration is aFrenchnoun. It means: Sorte d'état mental caractérisé par un déséquilibre entre un désir ou une attente et sa réalisation. Pronounced \fʁys.tʁa.sjɔ̃\. Often confused with frustrations.

Key facts for frustration
PropertyValue
Headwordfrustration
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\fʁys.tʁa.sjɔ̃\
Letters11
Frequency rank#10,164
Misspellings tracked17
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for frustration is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fʁys.tʁa.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #10,164 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Sorte d'état mental caractérisé par un déséquilibre entre un désir ou une attente et sa réalisation.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 17 documented wrong-spelling variants for frustration, with forms such as "ffrustration", "frrustration", and "frsutration". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "frustrations", 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 frustration, spelled F-R-U-S-T-R-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
    Sorte d'état mental caractérisé par un déséquilibre entre un désir ou une attente et sa réalisation.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ffrustration,frrustration,frsutration,frusrtation,frusstration,frustartion,frustraiton,frustratino,frustrationn,frustratoin,frustrattion,frustrration,frustrtaion,frusttration,frutsration,furstration,rfustration

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for frustration

Misspelling Variants of "frustration"

ffrustration12frrustration12frsutration11frusrtation11frusstration12frustartion11frustraiton11frustratino11
Misspelling Variants of "frustration"

Frequency rank: #10,164 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "frustration"?
"frustration" is spelled F-R-U-S-T-R-A-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \fʁys.tʁa.sjɔ̃\.
What does "frustration" mean?
As a noun, "frustration" means: Sorte d'état mental caractérisé par un déséquilibre entre un désir ou une attente et sa réalisation.
What words are commonly confused with "frustration"?
"frustration" is commonly confused with "frustrations". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "frustration"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "frustration" is \fʁys.tʁa.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "frustration" come from?
"frustration" 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.