ignition
\iɡ.ni.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“ignition” is uncommon French (frequency #67,586 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,586
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - État des corps en combustion.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ignition · ignition · French
ignition · rank #67,586 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,586
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH ifi
Nearest frequency peer: ifi (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « ignition »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- hutin
hutin
32,418 corpus weight
- ifi
ifi
32,416 corpus weight
- ignition
ignition
32,415 corpus weight
- illusoires
illusoires
32,414 corpus weight
- illustrator
illustrator
32,413 corpus weight
- immigrante
immigrante
32,412 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ignition » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ignition |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \iɡ.ni.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #67,586 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ignition » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ignition is uncommon French at frequency #67,586 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \iɡ.ni.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for ignition, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is ignition, spelled I-G-N-I-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1État des corps en combustion.
- 2État d’un métal ou d’un autre corps chauffé jusqu’à ce qu’il devienne rouge ; action de le porter dans cet état.
- 3État de fusion d’un plasma dans lequel l’énergie produite est suffisante pour que la réaction soit capable de s’auto-entretenir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ignition appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans la pipe ou le cigare, la combustion est incomplète, comme le témoigne assez la fumée ; les parties voisines du feu subissent toujours une distillation et une carbonisation partielles avant d'entrer à leur tour en ignition.
[…], il lui indiqua, d’après l’encyclopédie chinoise, deux volcans en ignition dans les régions centrales de l’Asie, à quatre cents lieues de la mer ; […].
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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