initiation
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#11,426
in French word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
initiation is aFrenchnoun. It means: Admission à la connaissance de certaines choses secrètes. Pronounced \i.ni.sja.sjɔ̃\. Often confused with initiative and invitation.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | initiation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \i.ni.sja.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #11,426 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for initiation is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \i.ni.sja.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #11,426 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for initiation, with forms such as "iintiation", "iniitation", and "initaition". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "initiative", "invitation", "instigation", and more, 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 initiation, spelled I-N-I-T-I-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
- 1Admission à la connaissance de certaines choses secrètes.
- 2Cérémonie par laquelle on était initié à la connaissance et à la participation de certains mystères chez les païens et qui se pratique encore dans les sociétés secrètes.
- 3Connaissance préliminaire d’une science, d’une profession, d’un art.
- 4Phénomène par lequel une enzyme permet le déclenchement d’une réaction chimique.
- 5Première phase de la transcription, comportant une fixation spécifique de l’ARN polymérase sur le promoteur de gène à transcrire, et la formation de la première liaison nucléo-protidique.
- 6Première phase de la traduction, comportant une fixation du ribosome sur un site spécifique de l’ARN messager, sa mise en place sur le codon d’initiation et la formation de la première liaison peptidique.
- 7Amorçage d'un processus.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: iintiation,iniitation,initaition,initiaiton,initiatino,initiationn,initiatoin,initiattion,inititaion,inittiation,innitiation,intiiation,niitiation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for initiation
Misspelling Variants of "initiation"
Frequency rank: #11,426 in French
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