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covariation

noun

covariation is spelled C-O-V-A-R-I-A-T-I-O-N: 11 letters. It appears about once in every 59 million words in written English, the 240,237th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, covariation means “covariance” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of covariation is covariations.

How many letters and syllables are in covariation?

Letters11: C-O-V-A-R-I-A-T-I-O-N
In writingabout once in every 59 million words; the 240,237th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is covariation?

Covariation appears about once in every 59 million words in written English, the 240,237th 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).

Forms of covariation

  • covariations plural

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

What does covariation mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    covariance

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

Where does covariation come from?

From co- + variation.

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

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