elocution
/ɛləˈkjuːʃən/
"elocution" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“elocution” is uncommon English (frequency #69,023 among 2,246 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,023
- frequency rank, English
- 2,246
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The art of speaking, especially public speaking, with expert control of gesture and voice, diction (articulation and word choice), and usage.
Corpus desk
Index EN-elocution · elocution · English
elocution · rank #69,023 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,023
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH elucidating
Nearest frequency peer: elucidating (+1 rank slots)
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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.
Long-tail ranks near “elocution”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- echidna
echidna
30,983 corpus weight
- editable
editable
30,981 corpus weight
- Edom
Edom
30,980 corpus weight
- elocution
elocution
30,978 corpus weight
- elucidating
elucidating
30,977 corpus weight
- engin
engin
30,975 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “elocution” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | elocution |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɛləˈkjuːʃən/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #69,023 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “elocution” in English
Rare enough to double-check
elocution is uncommon English at frequency #69,023 among 2,246 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ɛləˈkjuːʃən/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The art of speaking, especially public speaking, with expert control of gesture and voice, diction (articulation and word choice), and usage.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for elocution, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English elocucioun, ellocucioun, from Late Latin ēlocutiōnem. Doublet of elocutio. The correct English form is elocution, spelled E-L-O-C-U-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1The art of speaking, especially public speaking, with expert control of gesture and voice, diction (articulation and word choice), and usage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how elocution appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
perfect elocution
elocution training
Etymology
From Middle English elocucioun, ellocucioun, from Late Latin ēlocutiōnem. Doublet of elocutio.
This word in other languages
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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