qualification

/\ka.li.fi.ka.sjɔ̃\/ noun

Letters

13 characters

Frequency Rank

#4,705

in French word usage

Misspellings

18

tracked variants

Confusables

5

similar word pairs

qualification is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de qualifier ; attribution d’une qualité, d’un titre. Pronounced \ka.li.fi.ka.sjɔ̃\. It ranks #4,705 in French word frequency. Often confused with qualificative and qualifications.

Key facts for qualification
PropertyValue
Headwordqualification
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ka.li.fi.ka.sjɔ̃\
Letters13
Frequency rank#4,705
Misspellings tracked18
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for qualification is 13 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.li.fi.ka.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,705 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 qualification, with forms such as "qaulification", "qqualification", and "quailfication". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "qualificative", "qualifications", "quantification", 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 qualification, spelled Q-U-A-L-I-F-I-C-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

  1. 1
    Action de qualifier ; attribution d’une qualité, d’un titre.
  2. 2
    Action de se qualifier, dans une compétition éliminatoire, pour un tour supérieur.
  3. 3
    Titularisation, certification, établissement d'une qualité, d'un titre scolaire, nobiliaire ou autre.
  4. 4
    Épreuve de sélection des chevaux de course de trot leur permettant de participer à des courses hippiques s'ils parviennent à courir 2000 mètres en un temps donné, fixé en fonction de leur âge.
  5. 5
    Phase de croissance d’un arbre ou d’un peuplement, pendant laquelle l’objectif du sylviculteur est la formation d’une grume de qualité.

Antonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: qaulification,qqualification,quailfication,qualfiication,qualifciation,qualiffication,qualifiaction,qualificaiton,qualificatino,qualificationn,qualificatoin,qualificattion,qualificcation,qualifictaion,qualiifcation,quallification,qulaification,uqalification

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for qualification

Misspelling Variants of "qualification"

qaulification13qqualification14quailfication13qualfiication13qualifciation13qualiffication14qualifiaction13qualificaiton13
Misspelling Variants of "qualification"

Frequency rank: #4,705 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "qualification"?
"qualification" is spelled Q-U-A-L-I-F-I-C-A-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \ka.li.fi.ka.sjɔ̃\.
What does "qualification" mean?
As a noun, "qualification" means: Action de qualifier ; attribution d’une qualité, d’un titre.
What words are commonly confused with "qualification"?
"qualification" is commonly confused with "qualificative", "qualifications", "quantification". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "qualification"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "qualification" is \ka.li.fi.ka.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "qualification" come from?
"qualification" 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.