perturbation
Letters
12 characters
Frequency Rank
#17,227
in French word usage
Misspellings
18
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
perturbation is aFrenchnoun. It means: Trouble dans le fonctionnement d'un mécanisme ou de tout autre système technique, voire naturel. Pronounced \pɛʁ.tyʁ.ba.sjɔ̃\. Often confused with perturbations.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | perturbation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.tyʁ.ba.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #17,227 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for perturbation is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɛʁ.tyʁ.ba.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #17,227 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 18 documented wrong-spelling variants for perturbation, with forms such as "eprturbation", "perrturbation", and "pertrubation". 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, "perturbations", 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 perturbation, spelled P-E-R-T-U-R-B-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
- 1Trouble dans le fonctionnement d'un mécanisme ou de tout autre système technique, voire naturel.
- 2Modifications qui se produisent dans le mouvement des corps célestes, par suite de leur action mutuelle.
- 3Troubles qui modifient les conditions de notre atmosphère.
- 4Trouble causé dans l’organisme par quelque maladie ; et dans la marche d’une maladie par quelque remède énergique.
- 5Trouble important dans un état, dans une société, dans une affaire, dans un esprit, etc.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: eprturbation,perrturbation,pertrubation,pertturbation,pertubration,perturabtion,perturbaiton,perturbatino,perturbationn,perturbatoin,perturbattion,perturbbation,perturbtaion,perturrbation,perutrbation,petrurbation,pperturbation,preturbation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for perturbation
Misspelling Variants of "perturbation"
Frequency rank: #17,227 in French
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