institutionnalisation
\ɛ̃s.ti.ty.sjɔ.na.li.za.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“institutionnalisation” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #47,968 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #47,968
- frequency rank, French
- 21
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Action d’institutionnaliser.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | institutionnalisation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃s.ti.ty.sjɔ.na.li.za.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 21 |
| Frequency rank | #47,968 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “institutionnalisation” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for institutionnalisation is 21 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ̃s.ti.ty.sjɔ.na.li.za.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #47,968 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
institutionnalisation doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is institutionnalisation, spelled I-N-S-T-I-T-U-T-I-O-N-N-A-L-I-S-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action d’institutionnaliser.
- 2Prise en charge par le gouvernement de certaines personnes (malades mentaux, grands malades, etc.), incluant leur hébergement en milieu public.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is I-N-S-T-I-T-U-T-I-O-N-N-A-L-I-S-A-T-I-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.