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enervation

noun

enervation is spelled E-N-E-R-V-A-T-I-O-N: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 65 million words in written English, the 252,559th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, enervation means “Act of enervating; debilitation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of enervation is enervations.

How many letters and syllables are in enervation?

Letters10: E-N-E-R-V-A-T-I-O-N
In writingabout once in every 65 million words; the 252,559th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is enervation?

Enervation appears about once in every 65 million words in written English, the 252,559th 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 enervation?

  • US

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-enervation.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with enervation?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as enervation.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: veneration.

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 enervation

  • enervations plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does enervation mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    Act of enervating; debilitation.

  2. 2

    State of being enervated; debility.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Enervation in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense Act, or state, of enervating or exhausting:

LanguageWords
Frenchénervation
Spanishenervación

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 enervation come from?

From Middle French énervation.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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