imagination
French, noun/i.ma.ʒi.na.sjɔ̃/
imagination is spelled I-M-A-G-I-N-A-T-I-O-N (11 letters) and appears 15 times per million words in written French, the 4,746th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Imagination is a French feminine noun meaning “imagination” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faculté d’imaginer, de se représenter quelque chose dans l’esprit”.
What does imagination mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineimagination
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Faculté d’imaginer, de se représenter quelque chose dans l’esprit. 2. Faculté d’inventer, de concevoir, jointe au talent de rendre vivement ses conceptions. 3. Produit de ces inventions talentueuses. 4. Pensée, conception.
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 imagination
- imaginations plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce imagination?
- /i.ma.ʒi.na.sjɔ̃/
- \i.ma.ʒi.na.sjɔ̃\
- [i.ma.ʒi.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 imagination
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is imagination in French?
imagination appears 15 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).