réactivation

\ʁe.ak.ti.va.sjɔ̃\

/\ʁe.ak.ti.va.sjɔ̃\/ noun

The verdict

“réactivation” is uncommon French (frequency #54,868 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#54,868
frequency rank, French
5,742
“R” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de réactiver, remise en route.

Corpus desk

Index FR-reactivation · réactivation · French

réactivation · rank #54,868 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #54,868
  • LEN-MEGA 12 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH râlent

Nearest frequency peer: râlent (-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 « réactivation »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « réactivation » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for réactivation
PropertyValue
Headwordréactivation
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁe.ak.ti.va.sjɔ̃\
Letters12
Frequency rank#54,868
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « réactivation » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).réactivationtombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « râlent » (#54,867), « réfrigérant » (#54,869), « rusticité » (#54,866). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « réactivation » est au #54,868. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

réactivation is uncommon French at frequency #54,868 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁe.ak.ti.va.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.

We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for réactivation, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is réactivation, spelled R-É-A-C-T-I-V-A-T-I-O-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action de réactiver, remise en route.
  2. 2
    Redonner vie.
  3. 3
    Action de faire ressurgir, de façon volontaire ou involontaire, des symptômes d’un trouble ou d’une maladie qui semblait en rémission ou en voie de guérison.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how réactivation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Vous pouvez demander la réactivation de votre compte utilisateur au webmestre.
  2. Plusieurs de mes patients ont eu une réactivation importante de telles angoisses au moment des attentats du 11 septembre 2001.

This word in other languages

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "réactivation"?
"réactivation" is spelled R-É-A-C-T-I-V-A-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁe.ak.ti.va.sjɔ̃\.
What does "réactivation" mean?
As a noun, "réactivation" means: Action de réactiver, remise en route.
How do you pronounce "réactivation"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "réactivation" is \ʁe.ak.ti.va.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "réactivation", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list