cremation

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The English entry for cremation is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /kɹɪˈmeɪʃən/. Corpus data places it at rank #26,739 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "A burning; especially the act or practice of cremating the dead, burning a corpse.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for cremation, with forms such as "ccremation", "cermation", and "creamtion". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "creation", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Latin cremātiō, cremātiōnis; equivalent to cremate + -ion. Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is cremation, spelled C-R-E-M-A-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.