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conformation

UK /kɒn.fɔːˈmeɪ.ʃən/noun

conformation is spelled C-O-N-F-O-R-M-A-T-I-O-N: 12 letters and 4 syllables. It appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 34,912th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, conformation means “The act of conforming; the act of producing conformity” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of conformation is conformations.

How many letters and syllables are in conformation?

Letters12: C-O-N-F-O-R-M-A-T-I-O-N
Syllables4 (from its pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 1 million words; the 34,912th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Pairs people search
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is conformation?

Conformation appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 34,912th most frequent word form in the list.

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

How do you pronounce conformation?

  • UK /kɒn.fɔːˈmeɪ.ʃən/
  • UK /kɒn.fəˈmeɪʃən/
  • /kɑnfɚˈmeɪʃən/

Conformation has 4 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).

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

Words people confuse with conformation

Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).

confirmation vs conformation0 B

Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with conformation?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as conformation from its last stressed vowel (/eɪʃən/, British pronunciation):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of conformation

  • conformations plural

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

What does conformation mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    The act of conforming; the act of producing conformity.

  2. 2

    The state of being conformed; agreement

  3. 3

    Structure, the arrangement of parts of some thing; form; arrangement.

  4. 4

    The spatial arrangement of a group of atoms in a molecule as a result of rotation about a covalent bond which remains unbroken.

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

Conformation in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense spatial arrangement of a group of atoms in a molecule as a result of rotation ab:

LanguageWords
Frenchconformation
GermanKonformation

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does conformation come from?

From Latin confōrmātiō. By surface analysis, conform + -ation.

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

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