transition
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,047
in French word usage
Misspellings
15
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
transition is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action, manière de passer d’un état à un autre. Pronounced \tʁɑ̃.zi.sjɔ̃\. It ranks #3,047 in French word frequency. Often confused with translation and transitions.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | transition |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁɑ̃.zi.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #3,047 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for transition is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tʁɑ̃.zi.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,047 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 15 documented wrong-spelling variants for transition, with forms such as "rtansition", "tarnsition", and "tranistion". 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, "translation", "transitions", "tradition", 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 transition, spelled T-R-A-N-S-I-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Action, manière de passer d’un état à un autre.
- 2Manière d'effectuer la liaison entre les parties d’un discours, d'un raisonnement, d’un ouvrage.
- 3Passage, pour le cheval, d'une allure à une autre. Les transitions peuvent être montantes (du pas au trot, du trot au galop), ou descendantes (galop-pas; trot-arrêt), en fonction que les allures s'intensifient ou se ralentissent. Elles sont dites "intra-allures", lorsqu'elles ne consistent qu'en une variation de la même allure (ex: transition du trot rassemblé au trot de travail, ou du trot de travail au trot allongé).
- 4Remplacement, dans une chaîne normale d'acide désoxyribonucléique, de certaines bases par d'autres.
- 5Période intermédiaire entre deux styles biens représentatifs d'une tendance, d'une école...
- 6Passage d'un rythme, d'un ton, d'un mode à un autre.
- 7Passage d’un régime politique, d’un état de choses, d'un ordre à un autre.
- 8Dans la terminologie marxiste, phase de l’évolution d’une société, plus ou moins rapide et plus ou moins violente, préalable au communisme.
- 9Dans les sports enchaînés (triathlon, duathlon…), changement de disciplines et donc d’équipements.
- 10Processus par lequel une personne change de catégorie sexuée — peut être sociale, médicale ou juridique.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: rtansition,tarnsition,tranistion,trannsition,transiiton,transitino,transitionn,transitoin,transittion,transsition,transtiion,trasnition,trnasition,trransition,ttransition
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for transition
Misspelling Variants of "transition"
Frequency rank: #3,047 in French
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