# clarification

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˌklæɹɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/ · frequency rank #14,089

## Definitions
1. 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 of the insoluble particles which prevent the liquid from being transparent.
2. The act of freeing from obscurities; disambiguation.
3. An explanatory comment on, or question about, a point of obscurity.
4. A 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).
5. Clarity, transparency, mutual understanding; to be clear.

## Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French clarification, from Latin clārificātiō.

## Easily confused with
- **classification** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/clarification-vs-classification)

## Common misspellings (20)
`calrification`, `cclarification`, `clairfication`, `clarfiication`, `clarifciation`, `clariffication`, `clarifiaction`, `clarificaiton`, `clarificasion`, `clarificatino`, `clarificationn`, `clarificatoin`, `clarificattion`, `clarificcation`, `clarifictaion`, `clariifcation`, `clarrification`, `cllarification`, `clraification`, `lcarification`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/clarification