clarification
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "clarification", 13-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Wiktionary, and usage frequency ranked against an open word-frequency list covering the top 100,000 English words. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "clarification" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "clarification" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
clarification is aEnglishnoun. It means: The act of clarifying; the act or process of making clear or transparent by freeing visible impurities; particularly, the clearing or fining of liquid substances from impurities via the separation ... Pronounced /ˌklæɹɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/. Often confused with classification.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | clarification |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˌklæɹɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #14,089 |
| Misspellings tracked | 20 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for clarification is 13 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˌklæɹɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/. Corpus data places it at rank #14,089 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 20 likely wrong-spelling variants for clarification, with forms such as "calrification", "cclarification", and "clairfication". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "classification", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Middle French clarification, from Latin clārificātiō. Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is clarification, spelled C-L-A-R-I-F-I-C-A-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1The act of clarifying; the act or process of making clear or transparent by freeing visible impurities; particularly, the clearing or fining of liquid substances from impurities via the separation of the insoluble particles which prevent the liquid from being transparent.
- 2The act of freeing from obscurities; disambiguation.
- 3An explanatory comment on, or question about, a point of obscurity.
- 4A small piece of writing supplemental to a previously published text, intended to disambiguate, explain away obscurities, but not contradict or emend the text (as would a correction).
- 5Clarity, transparency, mutual understanding; to be clear.
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French clarification, from Latin clārificātiō.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: calrification,cclarification,clairfication,clarfiication,clarifciation,clariffication,clarifiaction,clarificaiton,clarificasion,clarificatino,clarificationn,clarificatoin,clarificattion,clarificcation,clarifictaion,clariifcation,clarrification,cllarification,clraification,lcarification
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Misspelling Variants of "clarification"
Frequency rank: #14,089 in English
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