afforestation
"afforestation" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“afforestation” is uncommon English (frequency #83,953 among 35,202 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,953
- frequency rank, English
- 35,202
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The act or process of creating a new forest where none had existed before, or reforestation of areas long deforested.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | afforestation |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #83,953 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “afforestation” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
afforestation is uncommon English at frequency #83,953 among 35,202 “A” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The act or process of creating a new forest where none had existed before, or reforestation of areas long deforested.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for afforestation, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Medieval Latin afforestātiō, from afforestāt-, past participial stem of afforestō (“to convert into a forest”) (from Latin ad- + Late Latin forestis (“forest”) + -ō (suffix forming verbs)), + Latin -iō (suffix forming action nouns). By surface analysis… The correct English form is afforestation, spelled A-F-F-O-R-E-S-T-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1The act or process of creating a new forest where none had existed before, or reforestation of areas long deforested.
Etymology
From Medieval Latin afforestātiō, from afforestāt-, past participial stem of afforestō (“to convert into a forest”) (from Latin ad- + Late Latin forestis (“forest”) + -ō (suffix forming verbs)), + Latin -iō (suffix forming action nouns). By surface analysis, afforest + -ation.
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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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- The one correct English spelling is A-F-F-O-R-E-S-T-A-T-I-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.