partition

/\paʁ.ti.sjɔ̃\/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#10,046

in French word usage

Misspellings

13

tracked variants

Confusables

4

similar word pairs

partition is aFrenchnoun. It means: L’ensemble ou la réunion de toutes les parties d’une composition musicale, écrites les unes au-dessous des autres, de manière à se correspondre exactement. Pronounced \paʁ.ti.sjɔ̃\. Often confused with pétition and parution.

Key facts for partition
PropertyValue
Headwordpartition
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\paʁ.ti.sjɔ̃\
Letters9
Frequency rank#10,046
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for partition is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \paʁ.ti.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #10,046 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for partition, with forms such as "aprtition", "parittion", and "parrtition". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "pétition", "parution", "perdition", and more, 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 partition, spelled P-A-R-T-I-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
    L’ensemble ou la réunion de toutes les parties d’une composition musicale, écrites les unes au-dessous des autres, de manière à se correspondre exactement.
  2. 2
    Réduction d’un opéra pour piano et chant, ou pour piano seul.
  3. 3
    Division ; partage.
  4. 4
    Pour un ensemble, découpage en sous-ensembles disjoints.
  5. 5
    Pour un entier naturel, écriture comme la somme d'entiers naturels.
  6. 6
    Division du champ de l’écu.
  7. 7
    Sous-ensemble d’un disque dur découpé virtuellement en unités logiques.
  8. 8
    Division logique d’une table stockée en plusieurs parties indépendantes.
  9. 9
    Division d'un territoire.
  10. 10
    Histoire ; succession d’événements.
  11. 11
    Programme.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: aprtition,parittion,parrtition,partiiton,partitino,partitionn,partitoin,partittion,parttiion,parttition,patrition,ppartition,pratition

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for partition

Misspelling Variants of "partition"

aprtition9parittion9parrtition10partiiton9partitino9partitionn10partitoin9partittion10
Misspelling Variants of "partition"

Frequency rank: #10,046 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "partition"?
"partition" is spelled P-A-R-T-I-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \paʁ.ti.sjɔ̃\.
What does "partition" mean?
As a noun, "partition" means: L’ensemble ou la réunion de toutes les parties d’une composition musicale, écrites les unes au-dessous des autres, de manière à se correspondre exactement.
What words are commonly confused with "partition"?
"partition" is commonly confused with "pétition", "parution", "perdition". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "partition"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "partition" is \paʁ.ti.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "partition" come from?
"partition" 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.