informations

/\ɛ̃.fɔʁ.ma.sjɔ̃\/ noun

Letters

12 characters

Frequency Rank

#944

in French word usage

Misspellings

18

tracked variants

Confusables

1

similar word pairs

informations is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ensemble de faits que l’on cherche à connaître ou dont on obtient la connaissance pour répondre à une interrogation. Pronounced \ɛ̃.fɔʁ.ma.sjɔ̃\. It ranks #944 in French word frequency. Often confused with Information.

Key facts for informations
PropertyValue
Headwordinformations
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɛ̃.fɔʁ.ma.sjɔ̃\
Letters12
Frequency rank#944
Misspellings tracked18
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for informations is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ̃.fɔʁ.ma.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #944 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 18 documented wrong-spelling variants for informations, with forms such as "ifnormations", "infformations", and "infomrations". 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, "Information", 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 informations, spelled I-N-F-O-R-M-A-T-I-O-N-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ensemble de faits que l’on cherche à connaître ou dont on obtient la connaissance pour répondre à une interrogation.
  2. 2
    Journal télévisé ou journal radiodiffusé.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ifnormations,infformations,infomrations,inforamtions,informaitons,informatinos,informationns,informationss,informatiosn,informatoins,informattions,informmations,informtaions,inforrmations,infromations,innformations,inofrmations,niformations

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for informations

Misspelling Variants of "informations"

ifnormations12infformations13infomrations12inforamtions12informaitons12informatinos12informationns13informationss13
Misspelling Variants of "informations"

Frequency rank: #944 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "informations"?
"informations" is spelled I-N-F-O-R-M-A-T-I-O-N-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛ̃.fɔʁ.ma.sjɔ̃\.
What does "informations" mean?
As a noun, "informations" means: Ensemble de faits que l’on cherche à connaître ou dont on obtient la connaissance pour répondre à une interrogation.
What words are commonly confused with "informations"?
"informations" is commonly confused with "Information". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "informations"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "informations" is \ɛ̃.fɔʁ.ma.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "informations" come from?
"informations" 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.