denitrification
noun
denitrification is spelled D-E-N-I-T-R-I-F-I-C-A-T-I-O-N. The wrong spelling people search most is dentrification: about 60 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Denitrification is a noun meaning “The process by which a nitrate becomes molecular nitrogen, especially by the action of bacteria”. The plural of denitrification is denitrifications.
How many letters and syllables are in denitrification?
| Letters | 15: D-E-N-I-T-R-I-F-I-C-A-T-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 13 million words; the 106,501st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, dentrification, about 60 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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).
How do you spell denitrification?
Denitrification is spelled D-E-N-I-T-R-I-F-I-C-A-T-I-O-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for denitrification in either form.
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). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is denitrification?
Denitrification appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 106,501st 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 denitrification
- denitrifications plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does denitrification mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The process by which a nitrate becomes molecular nitrogen, especially by the action of bacteria.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Denitrification in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense process:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | dénitrification |
| Portuguese | desnitrificação |
| Spanish | desnitrificación |
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 denitrification come from?
From de- + nitrification.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).