translation

/\tʁɑ̃s.la.sjɔ̃\/ noun

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.

Key facts for translation
PropertyValue
Headwordtranslation
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\tʁɑ̃s.la.sjɔ̃\
Letters11
Frequency rank#15,525
Misspellings tracked17
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Transport, action par laquelle on fait passer quelque chose d’un lieu à un autre.
  2. 2
    Transport, action par laquelle on fait passer quelque chose d’un lieu à un autre.
  3. 3
    Glissement d’un objet sans roulement.
  4. 4
    Déplacement, transition d'un concept à un autre.
  5. 5
    Action de remettre un événement d’un jour à un autre.
  6. 6
    Changement de la catégorie grammaticale d'un mot en une autre catégorie grammaticale, également appelée transfert, conversion ou dérivation impropre.
  7. 7
    Traduction.
  8. 8
    Déplacement sans rotation d’une figure.
  9. 9
    Mappage, mise en correspondance de données d’un type à un autre.
  10. 10
    Transport des reliques d’un saint d’un lieu à un autre.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

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"

rtanslation11tarnslation11tranlsation11trannslation12transaltion11translaiton11translatino11translationn12
Misspelling Variants of "translation"

Frequency rank: #15,525 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "translation"?
"translation" is spelled T-R-A-N-S-L-A-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \tʁɑ̃s.la.sjɔ̃\.
What does "translation" mean?
As a noun, "translation" means: Transport, action par laquelle on fait passer quelque chose d’un lieu à un autre.
What words are commonly confused with "translation"?
"translation" is commonly confused with "transition", "transaction". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "translation"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "translation" is \tʁɑ̃s.la.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "translation" come from?
"translation" 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.