desiccation
/ˌdɛsɪˈkeɪʃən/
"desiccation" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“desiccation” is uncommon English (frequency #74,025 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,025
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The state or process of being desiccated
Corpus desk
Index EN-desiccation · desiccation · English
desiccation · rank #74,025 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,025
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH deregulate
Nearest frequency peer: deregulate (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “desiccation”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- denuded
denuded
25,981 corpus weight
- depolarizat…
depolarization
25,979 corpus weight
- depositional
depositional
25,978 corpus weight
- deregulate
deregulate
25,977 corpus weight
- desiccation
desiccation
25,976 corpus weight
- dict
dict
25,972 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “desiccation” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | desiccation |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˌdɛsɪˈkeɪʃən/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #74,025 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “desiccation” in English
Rare enough to double-check
desiccation is uncommon English at frequency #74,025 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˌdɛsɪˈkeɪʃən/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for desiccation, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Middle French dessiccation, from Late Latin desiccatio, desiccationem, from Latin desicco. The correct English form is desiccation, spelled D-E-S-I-C-C-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1The state or process of being desiccated
- 2An act or occurrence of desiccating
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how desiccation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The most important mortality affecting the larval population was most probably caused by the repeated desiccations of the marsh in the summer.
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French dessiccation, from Late Latin desiccatio, desiccationem, from Latin desicco.
Synonyms
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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