observation
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,168
in French word usage
Misspellings
16
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
observation is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action d’observer ce qui est prescrit par quelque loi ou ce que l’on a promis à quelqu’un. Pronounced \ɔp.sɛʁ.va.sjɔ̃\. It ranks #4,168 in French word frequency. Often confused with observations.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | observation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔp.sɛʁ.va.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #4,168 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for observation is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɔp.sɛʁ.va.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,168 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 16 documented wrong-spelling variants for observation, with forms such as "boservation", "obbservation", and "obesrvation". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "observations", 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 observation, spelled O-B-S-E-R-V-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 d’observer ce qui est prescrit par quelque loi ou ce que l’on a promis à quelqu’un.
- 2Action de regarder avec attention, de surveiller.
- 3Ce que l'on aperçoit ainsi.
- 4Surveillance attentive à laquelle on soumet des personnes ou des animaux en vue d'établir un diagnostic.
- 5Action de considérer avec attention, avec étude les choses physiques ou morales.
- 6Résultat de ces études.
- 7Remarques sur des écrits de quelque auteur.
- 8Réflexion, considération.
- 9Remarque nuancée de reproche que l’on fait à quelqu’un sur sa manière d’agir, sur sa conduite.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: boservation,obbservation,obesrvation,obseravtion,obserrvation,observaiton,observatino,observationn,observatoin,observattion,observtaion,observvation,obsevration,obsrevation,obsservation,osbervation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for observation
Misspelling Variants of "observation"
Frequency rank: #4,168 in French
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