colouration

/ˌkʌ.ləˈreɪ.ʃən/noun

colouration is a noun meaning “Alternative spelling of coloration” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-O-L-O-U-R-A-T-I-O-N, and it appears about once in every 7 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of colouration is colourations.

What does colouration mean?

noun

1
Alternative spelling of coloration.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce colouration?

/ˌkʌ.ləˈreɪ.ʃən/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-colouration.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of colouration

colourations plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is colouration?

Colouration appears about once in every 7 million words in written English, the 77,666th most frequent word form in the list.

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rarerper million words of written Englishmore common

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Words people confuse with colouration

Also written: coloration.

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).