Washington

/\wa.ʃiŋ.tɔn\/ name

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Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#2,553

in French word usage

Misspellings

16

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

Washington is aFrenchname. It means: Ville capitale fédérale des États-Unis, appelée aussi Washington, D.C.. Pronounced \wa.ʃiŋ.tɔn\. It ranks #2,553 in French word frequency.

Key facts for Washington
PropertyValue
HeadwordWashington
LanguageFrench
Part of speechName
IPA\wa.ʃiŋ.tɔn\
Letters10
Frequency rank#2,553
Misspellings tracked16
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for Washington is 10 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \wa.ʃiŋ.tɔn\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,553 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 22 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 16 documented wrong-spelling variants for Washington, with forms such as "awshington", "wahsington", and "washhington". 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 Washington, spelled W-A-S-H-I-N-G-T-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ville capitale fédérale des États-Unis, appelée aussi Washington, D.C..
  2. 2
    Le gouvernement américain.
  3. 3
    Un des États des États-Unis, sur la côte Pacifique et limitrophe avec le Canada.
  4. 4
    Atoll des Kiribati.
  5. 5
    Lac Washington (lac de l’état de Washington).
  6. 6
    Mont Washington (montagnes du New Hampshire, de l’Oregon, de l’État de Washington et de Colombie-Britannique).
  7. 7
    Ville de l’Arkansas, de Californie, de Caroline du Nord, du Connecticut, de Géorgie.
  8. 8
    Ville de l’Illinois, de l’Indiana, de l’Iowa, du Kansas, de Louisiane.
  9. 9
    Ville du Maine, du Massachusetts, du Missouri, du Nebraska, du New Hampshire.
  10. 10
    Ville du New Jersey, de l’État de New York, de l’Oklahoma, de Pennsylvanie, village de Rhode Island.
  11. 11
    Ville de l’Utah, du Vermont, de Virginie, de Virginie-Occidentale.
  12. 12
    Nom de sept villes du Wisconsin.
  13. 13
    Communauté non-incorporée du Michigan et du Mississippi.
  14. 14
    Ville d’Afrique du Sud, d’Angleterre, d’Argentine, d’Aruba, de Bolivie.
  15. 15
    Ville de Colombie, de Cuba, du Guyana, d’Irlande, du Nicaragua.
  16. 16
    Ville de l’Ontario et de République dominicaine.
  17. 17
    Comté de l’Alabama, de l’Arkansas, de Caroline du Nord, du Colorado, de Floride.
  18. 18
    Comté de Géorgie, de l’Idaho, de l’Illinois, de l’Indiana, de l’Iowa.
  19. 19
    Comté du Kansas, du Kentucky, du Maine, du Maryland, du Minnesota.
  20. 20
    Comté du Mississippi, du Missouri, du Nebraska, de l’État de New York, de l’Ohio.
  21. 21
    Comté de l’Oklahoma, de l’Oregon, de Pennsylvanie, de Rhode Island, du Tennessee.
  22. 22
    Comté du Tennessee, du Texas, de l’Utah, du Vermont, de Virginie et du Wisconsin.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: awshington,wahsington,washhington,washignton,washinggton,washingotn,washingtno,washingtonn,washingtton,washinngton,washintgon,washnigton,wasihngton,wasshington,wsahington,wwashington

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Washington

Misspelling Variants of "Washington"

awshington10wahsington10washhington11washignton10washinggton11washingotn10washingtno10washingtonn11
Misspelling Variants of "Washington"

Frequency rank: #2,553 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Washington"?
"Washington" is spelled W-A-S-H-I-N-G-T-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \wa.ʃiŋ.tɔn\.
What does "Washington" mean?
As a name, "Washington" means: Ville capitale fédérale des États-Unis, appelée aussi Washington, D.C..
What are common misspellings of "Washington"?
Common misspellings include "awshington", "wahsington", "washhington", "washignton", "washinggton". The correct spelling is "Washington".
How do you pronounce "Washington"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Washington" is \wa.ʃiŋ.tɔn\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Washington" come from?
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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.