imagination
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | imagination |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \i.ma.ʒi.na.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #4,766 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Faculté d’imaginer, de se représenter quelque chose dans l’esprit.
- 2Faculté d’inventer, de concevoir, jointe au talent de rendre vivement ses conceptions.
- 3Produit de ces inventions talentueuses.
- 4Pensée, conception.
- 5Croyance, opinion qu’on a de quelque chose sans beaucoup de fondement.
- 6Fantaisie bizarre, idée chimérique et extravagante.
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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"
Frequency rank: #4,766 in French
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