exacerbation
/ɪɡˈzæsɚˌbeɪʃən/
"exacerbation" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“exacerbation” is uncommon English (frequency #69,831 among 2,246 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,831
- frequency rank, English
- 2,246
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An increase in the severity of something (such as a disease)
Corpus desk
Index EN-exacerbation · exacerbation · English
exacerbation · rank #69,831 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,831
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH excitability
Nearest frequency peer: excitability (+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 “exacerbation”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- entrainment
entrainment
30,173 corpus weight
- exacerbation
exacerbation
30,170 corpus weight
- excitability
excitability
30,169 corpus weight
- existance
existance
30,167 corpus weight
- exothermic
exothermic
30,165 corpus weight
- expansionary
expansionary
30,164 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “exacerbation” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | exacerbation |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɪɡˈzæsɚˌbeɪʃən/ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #69,831 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “exacerbation” in English
Rare enough to double-check
exacerbation is uncommon English at frequency #69,831 among 2,246 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ɪɡˈzæsɚˌbeɪʃən/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An increase in the severity of something (such as a disease)".
exacerbation has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English exacerbacyoun, from Latin exacerbātiōnem, from exacerbāre (“to provoke, make harsh”). See exacerbate. The correct English form is exacerbation, spelled E-X-A-C-E-R-B-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1An increase in the severity of something (such as a disease)
Etymology
From Middle English exacerbacyoun, from Latin exacerbātiōnem, from exacerbāre (“to provoke, make harsh”). See exacerbate.
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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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).