depredation
/ˌdɛpɹəˈdeɪʃən/
"depredation" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“depredation” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An act of consuming agricultural resources (crops, livestock), especially as plunder.
Corpus desk
Index EN-depredation · depredation · English
depredation · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | depredation |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˌdɛpɹəˈdeɪʃən/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “depredation” in English
Rare enough to double-check
depredation is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˌdɛpɹəˈdeɪʃən/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for depredation, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle French déprédation, from Latin depraedatio. The correct English form is depredation, spelled D-E-P-R-E-D-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1An act of consuming agricultural resources (crops, livestock), especially as plunder.
- 2A raid or predatory attack.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how depredation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
An animal that produces only two to four young per year cannot suffer vast depredations on the adult population without drastic effects.
Depredation of cultivated crops by elephants is widespread in both Africa and Asia.
Etymology
From Middle French déprédation, from Latin depraedatio.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.