translocation

/\tʁɑ̃s.lo.ka.sjɔ̃\/ noun

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Language

French

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translocation is aFrenchnoun. It means: Clivage d’un segment de génome suivi de son intégration en un autre site. Pronounced \tʁɑ̃s.lo.ka.sjɔ̃\.

Key facts for translocation
PropertyValue
Headwordtranslocation
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\tʁɑ̃s.lo.ka.sjɔ̃\
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

translocation is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for translocation is 13 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tʁɑ̃s.lo.ka.sjɔ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for translocation in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 translocation, spelled T-R-A-N-S-L-O-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
    Clivage d’un segment de génome suivi de son intégration en un autre site.
  2. 2
    Opération chirurgicale consistant à modifier le trajet d’un tendon pour en changer la fonction.
  3. 3
    Aberration chromosomique consistant en la cassure d’un segment de chromosome qui se fixe sur un chromosome non homologue.
  4. 4
    Processus de transfert des feuilles vers les autres organes de la plante.
  5. 5
    Processus de déplacement d’individus ou de populations d’un écosystème vers un autre, pour une réintroduction ou pour un brassage génétique.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "translocation"?
"translocation" is spelled T-R-A-N-S-L-O-C-A-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \tʁɑ̃s.lo.ka.sjɔ̃\.
What does "translocation" mean?
As a noun, "translocation" means: Clivage d’un segment de génome suivi de son intégration en un autre site.
How do you pronounce "translocation"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "translocation" is \tʁɑ̃s.lo.ka.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "translocation" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.