identification

/\i.dɑ̃.ti.fi.ka.sjɔ̃\/ noun

Letters

14 characters

Frequency Rank

#5,570

in French word usage

Misspellings

20

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

identification is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action d’identifier, de reconnaître quelque chose ou quelqu’un comme correspondant à une définition ou une identité. Pronounced \i.dɑ̃.ti.fi.ka.sjɔ̃\. It ranks #5,570 in French word frequency.

Key facts for identification
PropertyValue
Headwordidentification
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\i.dɑ̃.ti.fi.ka.sjɔ̃\
Letters14
Frequency rank#5,570
Misspellings tracked20
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for identification is 14 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \i.dɑ̃.ti.fi.ka.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,570 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 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 identification, with forms such as "dientification", "iddentification", and "idenitfication". 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 identification, spelled I-D-E-N-T-I-F-I-C-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 d’identifier, de reconnaître quelque chose ou quelqu’un comme correspondant à une définition ou une identité.
  2. 2
    Action de s’identifier, de se reconnaître légitimement ou abusivement dans une définition, une identité, un personnage fictif.
  3. 3
    Amalgame aliénant de son identité propre et de ses intérêts avec ceux de quelqu’un d’autre, résultant d’une manipulation ou pour raisons de survie.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: dientification,iddentification,idenitfication,idenntification,identfiication,identifciation,identiffication,identifiaction,identificaiton,identificatino,identificationn,identificatoin,identificattion,identificcation,identifictaion,identiifcation,identtification,idetnification,idnetification,iedntification

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for identification

Misspelling Variants of "identification"

dientification14iddentification15idenitfication14idenntification15identfiication14identifciation14identiffication15identifiaction14
Misspelling Variants of "identification"

Frequency rank: #5,570 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "identification"?
"identification" is spelled I-D-E-N-T-I-F-I-C-A-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \i.dɑ̃.ti.fi.ka.sjɔ̃\.
What does "identification" mean?
As a noun, "identification" means: Action d’identifier, de reconnaître quelque chose ou quelqu’un comme correspondant à une définition ou une identité.
What are common misspellings of "identification"?
Common misspellings include "dientification", "iddentification", "idenitfication", "idenntification", "identfiication". The correct spelling is "identification".
How do you pronounce "identification"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "identification" is \i.dɑ̃.ti.fi.ka.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "identification" come from?
"identification" 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.