artificial respiration
"artificial-respiration" is a 21-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“artificial respiration” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 22
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The manual or mechanical forcing of air into the lungs of a person who is not breathing in order to maintain life.
Corpus desk
Index EN-artificial-respiration · artificial respiration · English
artificial respiration · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 22 letters
- VOW-10 10 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | artificial respiration |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 22 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “artificial respiration” in English
Rare enough to double-check
artificial respiration is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The manual or mechanical forcing of air into the lungs of a person who is not breathing in order to maintain life.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for artificial respiration, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is artificial respiration, spelled A-R-T-I-F-I-C-I-A-L- -R-E-S-P-I-R-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1The manual or mechanical forcing of air into the lungs of a person who is not breathing in order to maintain life.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how artificial respiration appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
With a stride, the doctor reached the bed, and seizing her arms worked them energetically, applying what I knew to be artificial respiration. He issued a few short sharp orders to the servants.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.