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innovation

French, noun/i.nɔ.va.sjɔ̃/

innovation is spelled I-N-N-O-V-A-T-I-O-N (10 letters) and appears 24 times per million words in written French, the 3,248th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Innovation is a French feminine noun meaning “innovation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action d’innover, fait d’introduire une ou des nouveautés, d’apporter un changement important dans une…”.

What does innovation mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    feminineinnovation

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Action d’innover, fait d’introduire une ou des nouveautés, d’apporter un changement important dans une situation, dans un usage, dans un domaine quelconque. 2. Nouveauté produite pour la première fois ou apportée dans un usage. 3. Continuation de la tige par le développement d’un bourgeon, en parlant notamment de la ramification des hépatiques (cryptogames) caulescentes et des fétuques.

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 innovation

  • innovations plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce innovation?

  • /i.nɔ.va.sjɔ̃/
  • /in.nɔ.va.sjɔ̃/
  • \i.nɔ.va.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 innovation

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is innovation in French?

innovation appears 24 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).

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