question
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#258
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
question is aFrenchnoun. It means: Interrogation, demande que l’on fait pour s’informer de quelque chose. Pronounced \kɛs.tjɔ̃\. It ranks #258 in French word frequency. Often confused with questions and questionné.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | question |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɛs.tjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #258 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for question is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɛs.tjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #258 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for question, with forms such as "qeustion", "qquestion", and "quesiton". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "questions", "questionné", "Quentin", 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 question, spelled Q-U-E-S-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Interrogation, demande que l’on fait pour s’informer de quelque chose.
- 2Type de phrase pour demander une information, généralement avec un syntagme ou une particule interrogative, ou avec l’ordre des mots spécial. → voir phrase interrogative.
- 3Phrase dont le but est d’inviter un auditeur, un lecteur à donner une explication, un renseignement, ou tout cas appelant une réponse.
- 4Interrogations que l’on adresse à un élève dans un examen.
- 5Proposition qu’il y a lieu d’examiner, de discuter, difficulté dont on cherche la solution.
- 6Affaire considérable soumise à l’examen du gouvernement, d’une assemblée, du public.
- 7Torture qui était infligée aux accusés, en matière criminelle, pour leur arracher des aveux.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: qeustion,qquestion,quesiton,quesstion,questino,questionn,questoin,questtion,quetsion,qusetion,uqestion
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Misspelling Variants of "question"
Frequency rank: #258 in French
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