location
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,687
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
location is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action par laquelle le propriétaire d’une chose la donne à quelqu’un, à titre de louage ou de bail. Pronounced \lɔ.ka.sjɔ̃\. It ranks #4,687 in French word frequency. Often confused with lotion and locative.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | location |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɔ.ka.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #4,687 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for location is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lɔ.ka.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,687 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for location, with forms such as "lcoation", "llocation", and "loaction". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "lotion", "locative", "locution", 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 location, spelled L-O-C-A-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Action par laquelle le propriétaire d’une chose la donne à quelqu’un, à titre de louage ou de bail.
- 2Action de retenir à l’avance sa place, moyennant ou non un prix supplémentaire, dans un théâtre, dans une salle de concerts, de conférences, dans un compartiment de chemin de fer, sur un bateau, etc.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: lcoation,llocation,loaction,locaiton,locatino,locationn,locatoin,locattion,loccation,loctaion,olcation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for location
Misspelling Variants of "location"
Frequency rank: #4,687 in French
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