translation
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#15,525
in French word usage
Misspellings
17
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
translation is aFrenchnoun. It means: Transport, action par laquelle on fait passer quelque chose d’un lieu à un autre. Pronounced \tʁɑ̃s.la.sjɔ̃\. Often confused with transition and transaction.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | translation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁɑ̃s.la.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #15,525 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for translation is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tʁɑ̃s.la.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #15,525 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 17 documented wrong-spelling variants for translation, with forms such as "rtanslation", "tarnslation", and "tranlsation". 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, "transition", "transaction", 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 translation, spelled T-R-A-N-S-L-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
- 1Transport, action par laquelle on fait passer quelque chose d’un lieu à un autre.
- 2Transport, action par laquelle on fait passer quelque chose d’un lieu à un autre.
- 3Glissement d’un objet sans roulement.
- 4Déplacement, transition d'un concept à un autre.
- 5Action de remettre un événement d’un jour à un autre.
- 6Changement de la catégorie grammaticale d'un mot en une autre catégorie grammaticale, également appelée transfert, conversion ou dérivation impropre.
- 7Traduction.
- 8Déplacement sans rotation d’une figure.
- 9Mappage, mise en correspondance de données d’un type à un autre.
- 10Transport des reliques d’un saint d’un lieu à un autre.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: rtanslation,tarnslation,tranlsation,trannslation,transaltion,translaiton,translatino,translationn,translatoin,translattion,transllation,transltaion,transslation,trasnlation,trnaslation,trranslation,ttranslation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for translation
Misspelling Variants of "translation"
Frequency rank: #15,525 in French
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Nearby French words
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