imagination

/\i.ma.ʒi.na.sjɔ̃\/ noun

Letters

11 characters

Frequency Rank

#4,766

in French word usage

Misspellings

15

tracked variants

Confusables

1

similar word pairs

imagination is aFrenchnoun. It means: Faculté d’imaginer, de se représenter quelque chose dans l’esprit. Pronounced \i.ma.ʒi.na.sjɔ̃\. It ranks #4,766 in French word frequency. Often confused with imaginatif.

Key facts for imagination
PropertyValue
Headwordimagination
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\i.ma.ʒi.na.sjɔ̃\
Letters11
Frequency rank#4,766
Misspellings tracked15
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for imagination is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \i.ma.ʒi.na.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,766 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 15 documented wrong-spelling variants for imagination, with forms such as "iamgination", "imaggination", and "imagiantion". 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, "imaginatif", 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 imagination, spelled I-M-A-G-I-N-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
    Faculté d’imaginer, de se représenter quelque chose dans l’esprit.
  2. 2
    Faculté d’inventer, de concevoir, jointe au talent de rendre vivement ses conceptions.
  3. 3
    Produit de ces inventions talentueuses.
  4. 4
    Pensée, conception.
  5. 5
    Croyance, opinion qu’on a de quelque chose sans beaucoup de fondement.
  6. 6
    Fantaisie bizarre, idée chimérique et extravagante.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: iamgination,imaggination,imagiantion,imaginaiton,imaginatino,imaginationn,imaginatoin,imaginattion,imaginnation,imagintaion,imagniation,imaignation,imgaination,immagination,miagination

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for imagination

Misspelling Variants of "imagination"

iamgination11imaggination12imagiantion11imaginaiton11imaginatino11imaginationn12imaginatoin11imaginattion12
Misspelling Variants of "imagination"

Frequency rank: #4,766 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "imagination"?
"imagination" is spelled I-M-A-G-I-N-A-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \i.ma.ʒi.na.sjɔ̃\.
What does "imagination" mean?
As a noun, "imagination" means: Faculté d’imaginer, de se représenter quelque chose dans l’esprit.
What words are commonly confused with "imagination"?
"imagination" is commonly confused with "imaginatif". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "imagination"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "imagination" is \i.ma.ʒi.na.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "imagination" come from?
"imagination" 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.