hallucination
French, noun/a.ly.si.na.sjɔ̃/
hallucination is spelled H-A-L-L-U-C-I-N-A-T-I-O-N (13 letters) and appears 1.2 times per million words in written French, the 28,485th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Hallucination is a French feminine noun meaning “hallucination” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Perception sans objet réel, qui peut affecter la vision, l'audition, l'olfaction, le toucher et le goût. Le…”.
What does hallucination mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininehallucination
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Perception sans objet réel, qui peut affecter la vision, l'audition, l'olfaction, le toucher et le goût. Le sujet n'est pas conscient de son caractère pathologique contrairement à l'hallucinose. 2. Illusion. 3. Réponse vraisemblable mais incorrecte donnée par une intelligence artificielle.
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 hallucination
- hallucinations plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce hallucination?
- /a.ly.si.na.sjɔ̃/
- \a.ly.si.na.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 hallucination
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is hallucination in French?
hallucination appears 1.2 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).