conflation
/kənˈfleɪʃən/
"conflation" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“conflation” is uncommon English (frequency #59,291 among 43,570 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,291
- frequency rank, English
- 43,570
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A blowing or fusing together, as of many instruments in a concert, or of many fires in a foundry.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | conflation |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kənˈfleɪʃən/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #59,291 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “conflation” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
conflation is uncommon English at frequency #59,291 among 43,570 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /kənˈfleɪʃən/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
conflation doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Late Latin cōnflātiō, from Latin cōnflātus. By surface analysis, conflate + -ion. The correct English form is conflation, spelled C-O-N-F-L-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1A blowing or fusing together, as of many instruments in a concert, or of many fires in a foundry.
- 2A blend or fusion, especially a composite reading or text formed by combining the material of two or more texts into a single text.
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin cōnflātiō, from Latin cōnflātus. By surface analysis, conflate + -ion.
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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Using “conflation”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is C-O-N-F-L-A-T-I-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.