inhalation
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#32,019
in French word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
inhalation is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action d’aspirer, d’absorber par inspiration. Pronounced \i.na.la.sjɔ̃\. Often confused with inhumation and Inflation.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | inhalation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \i.na.la.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #32,019 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for inhalation is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \i.na.la.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #32,019 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for inhalation, with forms such as "ihnalation", "inahlation", and "inhaaltion". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "inhumation", "Inflation", 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 inhalation, spelled I-N-H-A-L-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
- 1Action d’aspirer, d’absorber par inspiration.
- 2Inspiration de certaines substances, telles que l’éther, le chloroforme, etc., dont on se sert pour produire l’anesthésie. Il se dit aussi de l’absorption de gaz ou de vapeurs thérapeutiques.
- 3Action organique des plantes, par laquelle elles se pénètrent, s’imbibent de l’air, des fluides au milieu desquels elles vivent.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ihnalation,inahlation,inhaaltion,inhalaiton,inhalatino,inhalationn,inhalatoin,inhalattion,inhallation,inhaltaion,inhhalation,inhlaation,innhalation,nihalation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for inhalation
Misspelling Variants of "inhalation"
Frequency rank: #32,019 in French
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