eviration
"eviration" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“eviration” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Emasculation; effeminacy.
Corpus desk
Index EN-eviration · eviration · English
eviration · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "E" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | eviration |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “eviration” in English
Rare enough to double-check
eviration is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Emasculation; effeminacy.".
eviration has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Latin eviratio. The correct English form is eviration, spelled E-V-I-R-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Emasculation; effeminacy.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how eviration appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Essentially, then, it was the fear of “eviration,” rather than any overt hostility to women, that excited Rousseauian passions.
Etymology
Latin eviratio.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.