anticoagulation
"anticoagulation" is a 15-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“anticoagulation” is uncommon English (frequency #77,414 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,414
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Treatment to prevent coagulation of blood.
Corpus desk
Index EN-anticoagulation · anticoagulation · English
anticoagulation · rank #77,414 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,414
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-8 8 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH annihilator
Nearest frequency peer: annihilator (-2 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 “anticoagulation”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- aneurism
aneurism
22,594 corpus weight
- annihilator
annihilator
22,589 corpus weight
- anticoagula…
anticoagulation
22,587 corpus weight
- apostolate
apostolate
22,583 corpus weight
- armorial
armorial
22,579 corpus weight
- ASCE
ASCE
22,575 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “anticoagulation” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | anticoagulation |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 15 |
| Frequency rank | #77,414 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “anticoagulation” in English
Rare enough to double-check
anticoagulation is uncommon English at frequency #77,414 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Treatment to prevent coagulation of blood.".
anticoagulation doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From anti- + coagulation. The correct English form is anticoagulation, spelled A-N-T-I-C-O-A-G-U-L-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Treatment to prevent coagulation of blood.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how anticoagulation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The patient was given anticoagulation treatment.
It was unlikely […], but if he had torn his aorta, anticoagulation could cause the patient to bleed to death.
Etymology
From anti- + coagulation.
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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