isolement

/\i.zɔl.mɑ̃\/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#7,453

in French word usage

Misspellings

13

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

isolement is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action d'isoler, de mettre à part. Pronounced \i.zɔl.mɑ̃\. It ranks #7,453 in French word frequency.

Key facts for isolement
PropertyValue
Headwordisolement
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\i.zɔl.mɑ̃\
Letters9
Frequency rank#7,453
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of isolement in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for isolement is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \i.zɔl.mɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,453 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 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 isolement, with forms such as "ioslement", "isloement", and "isoelment". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, 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 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 isolement, spelled I-S-O-L-E-M-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action d'isoler, de mettre à part.
  2. 2
    État d’une personne qui vit isolée.
  3. 3
    État de ce qui est isolé.
  4. 4
    Distance entre deux parties de construction qui ne se touchent pas.
  5. 5
    Séparation opérée par des milieux non conducteurs entre un corps qu’on électrise et les corps environnants qui pourraient lui enlever son électricité.
  6. 6
    L'isolement topographique d'un sommet désigne la distance séparant un sommet déterminé d'un point de même altitude situé sur les pentes d'un autre sommet plus élevé et le plus proche possible.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ioslement,isloement,isoelment,isoleemnt,isolemennt,isolementt,isolemetn,isolemment,isolemnet,isollement,isolmeent,issolement,siolement

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for isolement

Misspelling Variants of "isolement"

ioslement9isloement9isoelment9isoleemnt9isolemennt10isolementt10isolemetn9isolemment10
Misspelling Variants of "isolement"

Frequency rank: #7,453 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "isolement"?
"isolement" is spelled I-S-O-L-E-M-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \i.zɔl.mɑ̃\.
What does "isolement" mean?
As a noun, "isolement" means: Action d'isoler, de mettre à part.
What are common misspellings of "isolement"?
Common misspellings include "ioslement", "isloement", "isoelment", "isoleemnt", "isolemennt". The correct spelling is "isolement".
How do you pronounce "isolement"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "isolement" is \i.zɔl.mɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "isolement" come from?
"isolement" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.