signification

/\si.ɲi.fi.ka.sjɔ̃\/ noun

Letters

13 characters

Frequency Rank

#5,703

in French word usage

Misspellings

19

tracked variants

Confusables

4

similar word pairs

signification is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ce que signifie une chose ; sens attaché à une chose. Pronounced \si.ɲi.fi.ka.sjɔ̃\. It ranks #5,703 in French word frequency. Often confused with significative and significations.

Key facts for signification
PropertyValue
Headwordsignification
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\si.ɲi.fi.ka.sjɔ̃\
Letters13
Frequency rank#5,703
Misspellings tracked19
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for signification is 13 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \si.ɲi.fi.ka.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,703 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 19 documented wrong-spelling variants for signification, with forms such as "isgnification", "sginification", and "siggnification". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "significative", "significations", "significatif", 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 signification, spelled S-I-G-N-I-F-I-C-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

  1. 1
    Ce que signifie une chose ; sens attaché à une chose.
  2. 2
    Notification que l’on fait, connaissance que l’on donne d’un arrêt, d’un jugement, d’un acte, par voie judiciaire et légale, par ministère d’huissier.
  3. 3
    Corrélation entre le signifiant et le signifié.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: isgnification,sginification,siggnification,siginfication,signfiication,signifciation,signiffication,signifiaction,significaiton,significatino,significationn,significatoin,significattion,significcation,significtaion,signiifcation,signnification,singification,ssignification

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for signification

Misspelling Variants of "signification"

isgnification13sginification13siggnification14siginfication13signfiication13signifciation13signiffication14signifiaction13
Misspelling Variants of "signification"

Frequency rank: #5,703 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "signification"?
"signification" is spelled S-I-G-N-I-F-I-C-A-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \si.ɲi.fi.ka.sjɔ̃\.
What does "signification" mean?
As a noun, "signification" means: Ce que signifie une chose ; sens attaché à une chose.
What words are commonly confused with "signification"?
"signification" is commonly confused with "significative", "significations", "significatif". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "signification"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "signification" is \si.ɲi.fi.ka.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "signification" come from?
"signification" 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.