relation
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,041
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
13
similar word pairs
relation is aFrenchnoun. It means: Lien, rapport d’une chose à une autre. Pronounced \ʁə.la.sjɔ̃\. It ranks #1,041 in French word frequency. Often confused with religion and relative.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | relation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁə.la.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #1,041 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for relation is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁə.la.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,041 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 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 relation, with forms such as "erlation", "realtion", and "relaiton". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "religion", "relative", "rotation", 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 relation, spelled R-E-L-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
- 1Lien, rapport d’une chose à une autre.
- 2Interaction, liaison entre personnes ou entités.
- 3Liaison affective ou amoureuse.
- 4Personnes avec qui on est en rapport, sans être étroitement lié.
- 5Personne, entité avec laquelle on a des liens utiles ou de confiance.
- 6Proposition qui lie un certain nombre d’éléments dans un ensemble.
- 7Sur un ensemble E, partie du produit cartésien de E par E. Expressions utilisées : relation symétrique, relation réflexive, relation transitive, relation d'ordre, relation d'équivalence.
- 8Action de relater ; récit ou narration qu’on fait de ce que l’on a vu ou entendu.
- 9Rapport qui est entre deux personnes, entre deux choses que l’on considère ensemble, et respectivement l’une à l’autre.
- 10Lien entre des champs selon une clé : table de base de données relationnelle.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: erlation,realtion,relaiton,relatino,relationn,relatoin,relattion,rellation,reltaion,rleation,rrelation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for relation
Misspelling Variants of "relation"
Frequency rank: #1,041 in French
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