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anovulation

noun

anovulation is a noun meaning “Lack of ovulation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-N-O-V-U-L-A-T-I-O-N, and it appears about once in every 35 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of anovulation is anovulations.

What does anovulation mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Lack of ovulation.

  2. 2

    The act of ovulation through, or by means of, one's anus.

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

Forms of anovulation

  • anovulations plural

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

How common is anovulation?

Anovulation appears about once in every 35 million words in written English, the 180,281st 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).

Anovulation in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense lack of ovulation:

LanguageWords
Frenchanovulation
Portugueseanovulação
Spanishanovulación

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does anovulation come from?

From an- + ovulation.

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