instanciation
French, noun/ɛ̃s.tɑ̃.sja.sjɔ̃/
instanciation is spelled I-N-S-T-A-N-C-I-A-T-I-O-N (13 letters) and appears about once in every 31 million words in written French, the 177,898th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Instanciation is a French feminine noun meaning “instantiation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action d'instancier ou résultat de cette action, instance”.
What does instanciation mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineinstantiation
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action d'instancier ou résultat de cette action, instance. 2. Formation du discours à partir d’un événement courant. 3. Action d’instancier, d’initialiser en programmation, à partir d’un espace mémoire réservé, un objet à partir d’un ensemble de caractéristiques, appelé « classe »
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 instanciation
- instanciations plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce instanciation?
- /ɛ̃s.tɑ̃.sja.sjɔ̃/
- \ɛ̃s.tɑ̃.sja.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 instanciation
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is instanciation in French?
instanciation appears about once in every 31 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).