desiccation
/ˌdɛsɪˈkeɪʃən/noun
desiccation is spelled D-E-S-I-C-C-A-T-I-O-N. The wrong spelling people search most is dessication: about 420 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 3 in 10 of all searches for the word. Desiccation is a noun meaning “The state or process of being desiccated”. The plural of desiccation is desiccations.
How many letters and syllables are in desiccation?
| Letters | 11: D-E-S-I-C-C-A-T-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 6 million words; the 74,122nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, dessication, about 420 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; 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 do you spell desiccation?
Desiccation is spelled D-E-S-I-C-C-A-T-I-O-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 3 in 10 of the searches for desiccation 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 desiccation?
Desiccation appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 74,122nd 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 desiccation?
- US /ˌdɛsɪˈkeɪʃən/
Desiccation has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-desiccation.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with desiccation?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as desiccation from its last stressed vowel (/eɪʃən/):
- situation
- association
- population
- administration
- operation
- organization
- application
- location
- generation
- foundation
- conversation
- investigation
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 desiccation
- desiccations plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does desiccation mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The state or process of being desiccated.
- 2
An act or occurrence of desiccating.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Desiccation in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense The state or process of being desiccated:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | dessiccation |
| German | Trocknung |
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 desiccation come from?
Borrowed from Middle French dessiccation, from Late Latin desiccatio, desiccationem, from Latin desicco.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).