mutation

/\my.ta.sjɔ̃\/ noun

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.

Key facts for mutation
PropertyValue
Headwordmutation
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\my.ta.sjɔ̃\
Letters8
Frequency rank#7,730
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Remplacement d’une personne par une autre.
  2. 2
    Remplacement ou changement d’une chose par une autre.
  3. 3
    Changement.
  4. 4
    Changement de propriétaire d'un bien immobilier.
  5. 5
    Changement de localisation d'un poste pour un agent sans qu'il y ait de changement de type de poste.
  6. 6
    Famille de jeux d’orgue dont chaque note comporte plusieurs tuyaux de différentes longueurs qui émettent les harmoniques.
  7. 7
    Modification spontanée ou provoquée, le plus souvent héréditaire, du génome d’une cellule, d’un tissu ou d’un organisme.
  8. 8
    Résultat de cette modification.
  9. 9
    Changement qui, dans certaines langues comme les langues celtiques et le finnois, affecte certaines consonnes.

This word in other languages

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"

mmutation9mtuation8muattion8mutaiton8mutatino8mutationn9mutatoin8mutattion9
Misspelling Variants of "mutation"

Frequency rank: #7,730 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mutation"?
"mutation" is spelled M-U-T-A-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \my.ta.sjɔ̃\.
What does "mutation" mean?
As a noun, "mutation" means: Remplacement d’une personne par une autre.
What words are commonly confused with "mutation"?
"mutation" is commonly confused with "mutations", "mutilation", "munition". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "mutation"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mutation" is \my.ta.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "mutation" come from?
"mutation" 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.