mutation
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,730
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
mutation is aFrenchnoun. It means: Remplacement d’une personne par une autre. Pronounced \my.ta.sjɔ̃\. It ranks #7,730 in French word frequency. Often confused with mutations and mutilation.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mutation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \my.ta.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #7,730 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for mutation is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \my.ta.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,730 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 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for mutation, with forms such as "mmutation", "mtuation", and "muattion". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "mutations", "mutilation", "munition", 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 mutation, spelled M-U-T-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
- 1Remplacement d’une personne par une autre.
- 2Remplacement ou changement d’une chose par une autre.
- 3Changement.
- 4Changement de propriétaire d'un bien immobilier.
- 5Changement de localisation d'un poste pour un agent sans qu'il y ait de changement de type de poste.
- 6Famille de jeux d’orgue dont chaque note comporte plusieurs tuyaux de différentes longueurs qui émettent les harmoniques.
- 7Modification spontanée ou provoquée, le plus souvent héréditaire, du génome d’une cellule, d’un tissu ou d’un organisme.
- 8Résultat de cette modification.
- 9Changement qui, dans certaines langues comme les langues celtiques et le finnois, affecte certaines consonnes.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: mmutation,mtuation,muattion,mutaiton,mutatino,mutationn,mutatoin,mutattion,muttaion,muttation,umtation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for mutation
Misspelling Variants of "mutation"
Frequency rank: #7,730 in French
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