adulteration
"adulteration" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“adulteration” is uncommon English (frequency #78,331 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,331
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The process of adulterating.
Corpus desk
Index EN-adulteration · adulteration · English
adulteration · rank #78,331 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,331
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH Advaita
Nearest frequency peer: Advaita (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “adulteration”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- ACG
ACG
21,676 corpus weight
- acyclic
acyclic
21,673 corpus weight
- adulteration
adulteration
21,670 corpus weight
- Advaita
Advaita
21,669 corpus weight
- aggrandizem…
aggrandizement
21,666 corpus weight
- agroforestry
agroforestry
21,665 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “adulteration” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | adulteration |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #78,331 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “adulteration” in English
Rare enough to double-check
adulteration is uncommon English at frequency #78,331 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
adulteration has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle French adulteration and its etymon Latin adulterātĭō. By surface analysis, adulterate + -ion. The correct English form is adulteration, spelled A-D-U-L-T-E-R-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1The process of adulterating.
- 2The condition of being adulterated.
Etymology
From Middle French adulteration and its etymon Latin adulterātĭō. By surface analysis, adulterate + -ion.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).