origination
\ɔ.ʁi.ʒi.na.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“origination” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Création.
Corpus desk
Index FR-origination · origination · French
origination · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "O" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | origination |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.ʁi.ʒi.na.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « origination » en français
Rare enough to double-check
origination is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɔ.ʁi.ʒi.na.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Création.".
No misspelling variants are generated for origination in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is origination, spelled O-R-I-G-I-N-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Création.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how origination appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Consultant en management chez Arthur Andersen (1983), responsable de la syndication (1987) puis de l'origination obligataire au CCF, directeur de la stratégie et secrétaire du conseil de gérance chez Demachy Worms & Cie (1993), co-responsable des marchés obligataires primaires et secondaires et de la structuration chez CDC Ixis Capital Markets (1998), Man…
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