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evaporation

/ɪˌvæpəˈɹeɪʃən/noun

evaporation is spelled E-V-A-P-O-R-A-T-I-O-N: 11 letters and 5 syllables. It appears 1.2 times per million words in written English, the 26,092nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, evaporation means “The process of a liquid converting to the gaseous state” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of evaporation is evaporations.

How many letters and syllables are in evaporation?

Letters11: E-V-A-P-O-R-A-T-I-O-N
Syllables5 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing1.2 times per million words; the 26,092nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is evaporation?

Evaporation appears 1.2 times per million words in written English, the 26,092nd 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 evaporation?

  • US /ɪˌvæpəˈɹeɪʃən/
  • /i-/

Evaporation has 5 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-evaporation.wav, En-us-evaporation.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with evaporation?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as evaporation from its last stressed vowel (/eɪʃən/):

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 evaporation

  • evaporations plural

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

What does evaporation mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The process of a liquid converting to the gaseous state.

    rate of evaporation

  2. 2

    The process in which all or a portion of liquid (in a container) is turned into vapour, in order to increase the concentration of solid matter in the mixture.

  3. 3

    archaicThat which is evaporated; vapor.

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

How do you abbreviate evaporation?

Wiktionary records 2 abbreviations of evaporation: evap, evap..

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

Evaporation in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchévaporation (process of liquid converting to the gaseous…)
GermanVerdunstung, Verdunsten, Verdampfung, Verdampfen (process of liquid converting to the gaseous…), Eindampfen, Einkochen (process to increase concentration)
Portugueseevaporação (process of liquid converting to the gaseous…)
Spanishevaporación (process of liquid converting to the gaseous…)

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 evaporation come from?

From French évaporation, from Latin evaporatio. Morphologically evaporate + -ion.

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

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