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alimentation

noun

alimentation is spelled A-L-I-M-E-N-T-A-T-I-O-N: 12 letters. It appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 131,834th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, alimentation means “Alimony” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of alimentation is alimentations.

How many letters and syllables are in alimentation?

Letters12: A-L-I-M-E-N-T-A-T-I-O-N
In writingabout once in every 19 million words; the 131,834th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is alimentation?

Alimentation appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 131,834th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce alimentation?

  • US

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Sapaa-alimentation.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of alimentation

  • alimentations plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does alimentation mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    Alimony.

  2. 2

    Nourishment, as a process or as a substance.

  3. 3

    A French delicatessen.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does alimentation come from?

Borrowed from French alimentation.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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