respirations

/\ʁɛs.pi.ʁa.sjɔ̃\/ noun

Letters

12 characters

Frequency Rank

#48,158

in French word usage

Misspellings

18

tracked variants

Confusables

2

similar word pairs

respirations is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pluriel de respiration. Pronounced \ʁɛs.pi.ʁa.sjɔ̃\. Often confused with respiration and réparations.

Key facts for respirations
PropertyValue
Headwordrespirations
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁɛs.pi.ʁa.sjɔ̃\
Letters12
Frequency rank#48,158
Misspellings tracked18
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for respirations is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁɛs.pi.ʁa.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #48,158 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Pluriel de respiration.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 18 documented wrong-spelling variants for respirations, with forms such as "erspirations", "repsirations", and "resiprations". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "respiration", "réparations", 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 respirations, spelled R-E-S-P-I-R-A-T-I-O-N-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de respiration.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: erspirations,repsirations,resiprations,respiartions,respiraitons,respiratinos,respirationns,respirationss,respiratiosn,respiratoins,respirattions,respirrations,respirtaions,resppirations,respriations,resspirations,rrespirations,rsepirations

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for respirations

Misspelling Variants of "respirations"

erspirations12repsirations12resiprations12respiartions12respiraitons12respiratinos12respirationns13respirationss13
Misspelling Variants of "respirations"

Frequency rank: #48,158 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "respirations"?
"respirations" is spelled R-E-S-P-I-R-A-T-I-O-N-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁɛs.pi.ʁa.sjɔ̃\.
What does "respirations" mean?
As a noun, "respirations" means: Pluriel de respiration.
What words are commonly confused with "respirations"?
"respirations" is commonly confused with "respiration", "réparations". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "respirations"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "respirations" is \ʁɛs.pi.ʁa.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "respirations" come from?
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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.