ovation
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#26,115
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
ovation is aFrenchnoun. It means: Sorte de triomphe, où le triomphateur entrait dans la ville à pied ou à cheval et sacrifiait une brebis ; à la différence du grand triomphe, où le triomphateur était sur un char et sacrifiait un ta... Pronounced \ɔ.va.sjɔ̃\. Often confused with ovulation and option.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ovation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.va.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #26,115 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ovation is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɔ.va.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #26,115 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for ovation, with forms such as "oavtion", "ovaiton", and "ovatino". 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, "ovulation", "option", "onction", 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 ovation, spelled O-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
- 1Sorte de triomphe, où le triomphateur entrait dans la ville à pied ou à cheval et sacrifiait une brebis ; à la différence du grand triomphe, où le triomphateur était sur un char et sacrifiait un taureau.
- 2Acclamations, des marques bruyantes d’enthousiasme qui accueillent un orateur ou tout autre personnage auquel on rend honneur, que l’on fête.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: oavtion,ovaiton,ovatino,ovationn,ovatoin,ovattion,ovtaion,ovvation,voation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ovation
Misspelling Variants of "ovation"
Frequency rank: #26,115 in French
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