invention
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,774
in French word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
11
similar word pairs
invention is aFrenchnoun. It means: Solution nouvelle, trouvée pour la première fois, inédite, et prouvée par un prototype qui fonctionne, d’un problème pratique, scientifique ou technique. Pronounced \ɛ̃.vɑ̃.sjɔ̃\. It ranks #5,774 in French word frequency. Often confused with inversion and inventive.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | invention |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.vɑ̃.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #5,774 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for invention is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ̃.vɑ̃.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,774 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 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 invention, with forms such as "inevntion", "innvention", and "inveniton". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "inversion", "inventive", "inventions", 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 invention, spelled I-N-V-E-N-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Solution nouvelle, trouvée pour la première fois, inédite, et prouvée par un prototype qui fonctionne, d’un problème pratique, scientifique ou technique.
- 2Action d’inventer.
- 3Solution technique qui peut faire l’objet d’une demande de brevet.
- 4Fugue à deux voix.
- 5Faculté cognitive et psychologique de trouver des solutions universelles à des problèmes.
- 6Recherche et choix des arguments que l’on doit employer, des idées que le sujet fournit, dont on peut faire usage.
- 7Affabulation.
- 8Découverte d'un site ou d'un objet archéologique.
- 9Découverte de certaines reliques et, par extension, fête que l’Église catholique romaine célèbre en mémoire de cette découverte.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: inevntion,innvention,inveniton,invenntion,inventino,inventionn,inventoin,inventtion,invetnion,invnetion,invvention,ivnention,nivention
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for invention
Misspelling Variants of "invention"
Frequency rank: #5,774 in French
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