postulation
\pɔs.ty.la.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“postulation” is uncommon French (frequency #91,047 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,047
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de postuler, d’occuper pour une partie, devant un tribunal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-postulation · postulation · French
postulation · rank #91,047 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,047
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH postillon
Nearest frequency peer: postillon (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « postulation »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pommard
pommard
8,958 corpus weight
- ponceuse
ponceuse
8,957 corpus weight
- ponctuant
ponctuant
8,956 corpus weight
- postillon
postillon
8,955 corpus weight
- postulation
postulation
8,954 corpus weight
- prestiges
prestiges
8,951 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « postulation » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | postulation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔs.ty.la.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #91,047 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « postulation » en français
Rare enough to double-check
postulation is uncommon French at frequency #91,047 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɔs.ty.la.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for postulation, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is postulation, spelled P-O-S-T-U-L-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action de postuler, d’occuper pour une partie, devant un tribunal.
- 2Candidature.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how postulation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
postulation […] Mission consistant à accomplir au nom d'un plaideur les actes de la procédure, qui incombe, du seul fait qu'elle est constituée, à la personne investie d'un mandat de représentation en justice.
Suite à votre postulation et après examen de votre dossier, nous sommes au regret de vous informer que votre candidature n’a pas été retenue.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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