significations

/\si.ɲi.fi.ka.sjɔ̃\/ noun

Letters

14 characters

Frequency Rank

#17,815

in French word usage

Misspellings

21

tracked variants

Confusables

3

similar word pairs

significations is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pluriel de signification. Pronounced \si.ɲi.fi.ka.sjɔ̃\. Often confused with significatives and signification.

Key facts for significations
PropertyValue
Headwordsignifications
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\si.ɲi.fi.ka.sjɔ̃\
Letters14
Frequency rank#17,815
Misspellings tracked21
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for significations is 14 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \si.ɲi.fi.ka.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #17,815 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 signification.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 21 documented wrong-spelling variants for significations, with forms such as "isgnifications", "sginifications", and "siggnifications". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "significatives", "signification", "significatifs", 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 significations, spelled S-I-G-N-I-F-I-C-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 signification.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: isgnifications,sginifications,siggnifications,siginfications,signfiications,signifciations,signiffications,signifiactions,significaitons,significatinos,significationns,significationss,significatiosn,significatoins,significattions,significcations,significtaions,signiifcations,signnifications,singifications,ssignifications

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for significations

Misspelling Variants of "significations"

isgnifications14sginifications14siggnifications15siginfications14signfiications14signifciations14signiffications15signifiactions14
Misspelling Variants of "significations"

Frequency rank: #17,815 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "significations"?
"significations" is spelled S-I-G-N-I-F-I-C-A-T-I-O-N-S. The IPA pronunciation is \si.ɲi.fi.ka.sjɔ̃\.
What does "significations" mean?
As a noun, "significations" means: Pluriel de signification.
What words are commonly confused with "significations"?
"significations" is commonly confused with "significatives", "signification", "significatifs". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "significations"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "significations" 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 "significations" 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.