photographie

/\fɔ.to.ɡʁa.fi\/ noun

Letters

12 characters

Frequency Rank

#4,516

in French word usage

Misspellings

18

tracked variants

Confusables

7

similar word pairs

photographie is aFrenchnoun. It means: Processus de fabrication d’images sur une surface sensible. Pronounced \fɔ.to.ɡʁa.fi\. It ranks #4,516 in French word frequency. Often confused with photography and photographies.

Key facts for photographie
PropertyValue
Headwordphotographie
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\fɔ.to.ɡʁa.fi\
Letters12
Frequency rank#4,516
Misspellings tracked18
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for photographie is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fɔ.to.ɡʁa.fi\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,516 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.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 photographie, with forms such as "hpotographie", "phhotographie", and "phootgraphie". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "photography", "photographies", "photographier", 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 photographie, spelled P-H-O-T-O-G-R-A-P-H-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Processus de fabrication d’images sur une surface sensible.
  2. 2
    Image sur un support photosensible.
  3. 3
    Portrait réalisé par photographie.
  4. 4
    Art des photographes.
  5. 5
    Résumé ou synthèse d’une situation à un moment donné.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: hpotographie,phhotographie,phootgraphie,photgoraphie,photogarphie,photoggraphie,photograhpie,photographei,photographhie,photograpihe,photograpphie,photogrpahie,photogrraphie,photorgaphie,phottographie,phtoographie,pohtographie,pphotographie

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for photographie

Misspelling Variants of "photographie"

hpotographie12phhotographie13phootgraphie12photgoraphie12photogarphie12photoggraphie13photograhpie12photographei12
Misspelling Variants of "photographie"

Frequency rank: #4,516 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "photographie"?
"photographie" is spelled P-H-O-T-O-G-R-A-P-H-I-E. The IPA pronunciation is \fɔ.to.ɡʁa.fi\.
What does "photographie" mean?
As a noun, "photographie" means: Processus de fabrication d’images sur une surface sensible.
What words are commonly confused with "photographie"?
"photographie" is commonly confused with "photography", "photographies", "photographier". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "photographie"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "photographie" is \fɔ.to.ɡʁa.fi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "photographie" come from?
"photographie" 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.