aspiration
/ˌæspəˈɹeɪʃən/
"aspiration" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“aspiration” has 15 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #19,522. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,522
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act of aspiring or ardently desiring; an ardent wish or desire, chiefly after what is elevated or spiritual (with common adjunct adpositions being to and of).
Corpus desk
Index EN-aspiration · aspiration · English
aspiration · rank #19,522 · 15 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,522
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH ASEAN
Nearest frequency peer: ASEAN (-1 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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “aspiration”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- AMI
AMI
80,482 corpus weight
- ascended
ascended
80,481 corpus weight
- ASEAN
ASEAN
80,480 corpus weight
- aspiration
aspiration
80,479 corpus weight
- Atkins
Atkins
80,478 corpus weight
- attentive
attentive
80,477 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “aspiration” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aspiration |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˌæspəˈɹeɪʃən/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #19,522 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “aspiration” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around aspiration (IPA /ˌæspəˈɹeɪʃən/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,522 among 3,931 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "The act of aspiring or ardently desiring; an ardent wish or desire, chiefly after what is elevated or spiritual (with common adjunct adpositions being to and of).".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for aspiration, with forms such as "apsiration", "asipration", and "aspiartion". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "aspirational", "admiration", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From aspire + -ation. The correct English form is aspiration, spelled A-S-P-I-R-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1The act of aspiring or ardently desiring; an ardent wish or desire, chiefly after what is elevated or spiritual (with common adjunct adpositions being to and of).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how aspiration appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Riley has an aspiration to become a doctor.
Morgan has an aspiration of winning the game.
Etymology
From aspire + -ation.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apsiration
- asipration
- aspiartion
- aspiraiton
- aspirasion
- aspiratino
- aspirationn
- aspiratoin
- aspirattion
- aspirration
- aspirtaion
- asppiration
- aspriation
- asspiration
- sapiration
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of aspiration - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "aspiration", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- "aspiration" maps to 2 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "aspirational". View pair
- 15 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #19,522 among English headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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Data Source
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.