beatification
/biˌætɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
"beatification" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“beatification” is uncommon English (frequency #73,895 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,895
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act of beatifying, or the state of being beatified; especially, in the Roman Catholic Church, the act or process of ascertaining and declaring that a deceased person is one of "the blessed," or...
Corpus desk
Index EN-beatification · beatification · English
beatification · rank #73,895 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,895
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH Bedi
Nearest frequency peer: Bedi (+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.
Long-tail ranks near “beatification”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Baran
Baran
26,113 corpus weight
- baseband
baseband
26,111 corpus weight
- basmati
basmati
26,110 corpus weight
- beatificati…
beatification
26,106 corpus weight
- Bedi
Bedi
26,105 corpus weight
- Beersheba
Beersheba
26,104 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “beatification” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | beatification |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /biˌætɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #73,895 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “beatification” in English
Rare enough to double-check
beatification is uncommon English at frequency #73,895 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /biˌætɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The act of beatifying, or the state of being beatified; especially, in the Roman Catholic Church, the act or process of ascertaining and declaring that a deceased person is one of "the blessed," or...".
beatification doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle French béatification, from Medieval Latin beātificātiō. The correct English form is beatification, spelled B-E-A-T-I-F-I-C-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1The act of beatifying, or the state of being beatified; especially, in the Roman Catholic Church, the act or process of ascertaining and declaring that a deceased person is one of "the blessed," or has attained the second degree of sanctity, — usually a stage in the process of canonization.
Etymology
From Middle French béatification, from Medieval Latin beātificātiō.
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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