rotation
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,235
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
rotation is aFrenchnoun. It means: Mouvement rotatif, giratoire, circulaire, d’un corps ou objet autour d’un axe traversant celui-ci. Pronounced \ʁɔ.ta.sjɔ̃\. It ranks #7,235 in French word frequency. Often confused with rotative and rotations.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rotation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɔ.ta.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #7,235 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for rotation is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁɔ.ta.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,235 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 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 rotation, with forms such as "ortation", "roattion", and "rotaiton". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "rotative", "rotations", "ration", 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 rotation, spelled R-O-T-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
- 1Mouvement rotatif, giratoire, circulaire, d’un corps ou objet autour d’un axe traversant celui-ci.
- 2Mouvement d’une planète autour de son axe propre.
- 3Révolution d’un objet autour d’un axe hors de celui-ci.
- 4Rythme de renouvellement du personnel, du chiffre d’affaires, des stocks d’une entreprise.
- 5Succession des cultures sur une même parcelle ou un même sol sur plusieurs années.
- 6Ensemble des lanceurs partants d'une équipe de baseball.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ortation,roattion,rotaiton,rotatino,rotationn,rotatoin,rotattion,rottaion,rottation,rrotation,rtoation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for rotation
Misspelling Variants of "rotation"
Frequency rank: #7,235 in French
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