transposition
Letters
13 characters
Frequency Rank
#23,053
in French word usage
Misspellings
20
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
transposition is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de transposer ou résultat de cette action. Pronounced \tʁɑ̃.spo.zi.sjɔ̃\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | transposition |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁɑ̃.spo.zi.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #23,053 |
| Misspellings tracked | 20 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for transposition is 13 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tʁɑ̃.spo.zi.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #23,053 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 20 documented wrong-spelling variants for transposition, with forms such as "rtansposition", "tarnsposition", and "trannsposition". 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 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 transposition, spelled T-R-A-N-S-P-O-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 de transposer ou résultat de cette action.
- 2Action d’intervertir l’ordre dans lequel les mots sont habituellement rangés.
- 3Interversion de feuilles d’impression, de cahiers d’écriture.
- 4Action de faire passer d’un ton dans un autre ; résultat de cette action.
- 5Changement de la localisation d’un fragment d’ADN sur le génome.
- 6Permutation échangeant exactement deux éléments.
- 7Pour une matrice, permutation échangeant chaque ligne en une colonne et vice versa, donnant la matrice transposée.
- 8Action de transposer une directive, une décision de l’Union européenne en droit interne.
- 9Technique de restauration où l’on enlève le support original d’une peinture (toile ou panneau) pour en mettre un nouveau.
- 10Dérivation impropre.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: rtansposition,tarnsposition,trannsposition,tranpsosition,transopsition,transpoistion,transposiiton,transpositino,transpositionn,transpositoin,transposittion,transpossition,transpostiion,transpposition,transpsoition,transsposition,trasnposition,trnasposition,trransposition,ttransposition
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for transposition
Misspelling Variants of "transposition"
Frequency rank: #23,053 in French
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