relâchement

/\ʁə.laʃ.mɑ̃\/ noun

Letters

11 characters

Frequency Rank

#25,108

in French word usage

Misspellings

18

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

relâchement is aFrenchnoun. It means: État d’une chose qui devient moins tendue qu’elle n’était, qui a perdu de son ressort. Pronounced \ʁə.laʃ.mɑ̃\.

Key facts for relâchement
PropertyValue
Headwordrelâchement
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁə.laʃ.mɑ̃\
Letters11
Frequency rank#25,108
Misspellings tracked18
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for relâchement is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁə.laʃ.mɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #25,108 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 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 relâchement, with forms such as "erlâchement", "relachement", and "relcâhement". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 relâchement, spelled R-E-L-Â-C-H-E-M-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    État d’une chose qui devient moins tendue qu’elle n’était, qui a perdu de son ressort.
  2. 2
    Diminution de l’effort, de la vigueur, de la régularité, de la sévérité.
  3. 3
    Délassement ; état de repos ; utile cessation de travail ou d’exercice.
  4. 4
    Relargage.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: erlâchement,relachement,relcâhement,rellâchement,relâcchement,relâcehment,relâcheemnt,relâchemennt,relâchementt,relâchemetn,relâchemment,relâchemnet,relâchhement,relâchmeent,relâhcement,reâlchement,rleâchement,rrelâchement

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for relâchement

Misspelling Variants of "relâchement"

erlâchement11relachement11relcâhement11rellâchement12relâcchement12relâcehment11relâcheemnt11relâchemennt12
Misspelling Variants of "relâchement"

Frequency rank: #25,108 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "relâchement"?
"relâchement" is spelled R-E-L-Â-C-H-E-M-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁə.laʃ.mɑ̃\.
What does "relâchement" mean?
As a noun, "relâchement" means: État d’une chose qui devient moins tendue qu’elle n’était, qui a perdu de son ressort.
What are common misspellings of "relâchement"?
Common misspellings include "erlâchement", "relachement", "relcâhement", "rellâchement", "relâcchement". The correct spelling is "relâchement".
How do you pronounce "relâchement"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "relâchement" is \ʁə.laʃ.mɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "relâchement" come from?
"relâchement" 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.