orientation
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,479
in French word usage
Misspellings
15
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
orientation is aFrenchnoun. It means: Détermination des points cardinaux du lieu où l’on se trouve. Pronounced \ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃\. It ranks #3,479 in French word frequency. Often confused with orientations.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | orientation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #3,479 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for orientation is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,479 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 generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for orientation, with forms such as "oirentation", "oreintation", and "orienattion". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "orientations", 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 orientation, spelled O-R-I-E-N-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
- 1Détermination des points cardinaux du lieu où l’on se trouve.
- 2Position d’un objet relativement à l’orient, aux points cardinaux.
- 3Exposition, en parlant d’une maison.
- 4Disposition convenable des voiles et des vergues.
- 5Direction.
- 6Direction des axes d’un engin spatial par rapport à un trièdre de référence.
- 7Tendance.
- 8Direction donnée à un élément graphique, un symbole ou une structure géométrique, par rapport aux côtés de la carte.
- 9Orientation de renseignement.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: oirentation,oreintation,orienattion,orienntation,orientaiton,orientatino,orientationn,orientatoin,orientattion,orienttaion,orienttation,orietnation,orinetation,orrientation,roientation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "orientation"
Frequency rank: #3,479 in French
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