excommunication

Name: excommunication, English Word Data
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/ɛkskəmjuːnɪˈkeɪʃən/

//ɛkskəmjuːnɪˈkeɪʃən// noun

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed May 6, 2026

The verdict

“excommunication” has 21 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #41,619. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#41,619
frequency rank, English: 18,836
“E” headwords: 21
tracked misspellings

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting; especially an ecclesiastical censure whereby the person against whom it is pronounced is, for the time, cast out of the communication of t...

Key facts for excommunication
Property	Value
Headword	excommunication
Language	English
Part of speech	Noun
IPA	/ɛkskəmjuːnɪˈkeɪʃən/
Letters	15
Frequency rank	#41,619
Misspellings tracked	21
Confusable pairs	0
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “excommunication” sits in English frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). excommunication lands here:

#41,619

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

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Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 21 spelling variants around excommunication (IPA /ɛkskəmjuːnɪˈkeɪʃən/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #41,619 among 18,836 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "The act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting; especially an ecclesiastical censure whereby the person against whom it is pronounced is, for the time, cast out of the communication of t...".

Our generated misspelling index lists 21 likely wrong-spelling variants for excommunication, with forms such as "ecxommunication", "exccommunication", and "excmomunication". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English excommunicacion, from Late Latin excommūnicātiō. By surface analysis, excommunicate + -ion. Displaced native Old English āmǣnsumung. The correct English form is excommunication, spelled E-X-C-O-M-M-U-N-I-C-A-T-I-O-N.

Definition

1
The act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting; especially an ecclesiastical censure whereby the person against whom it is pronounced is, for the time, cast out of the communication of the church; exclusion from fellowship in things spiritual.

Etymology

From Middle English excommunicacion, from Late Latin excommūnicātiō. By surface analysis, excommunicate + -ion. Displaced native Old English āmǣnsumung.

Synonyms

disfellowshipment

This word in other languages

excomunión(Español)excommunication(Français)Exkommunikation(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

ecxommunication
exccommunication
excmomunication
excommnuication
excommuincation
excommunciation
excommuniaction
excommunicaiton
excommunicasion
excommunicatino
excommunicationn
excommunicatoin
excommunicattion
excommuniccation
excommunictaion
excommunnication
excomumnication
excomunication
exocmmunication
exxcommunication
xecommunication

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of excommunication - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

Edit distance from "excommunication"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "excommunication"?

"excommunication" is spelled E-X-C-O-M-M-U-N-I-C-A-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is /ɛkskəmjuːnɪˈkeɪʃən/.

What does "excommunication" mean?

As a noun, "excommunication" means: The act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting; especially an ecclesiastical censure whereby the person against whom it is pronounced is, for the time, cast out of the communication of t...

What are common misspellings of "excommunication"?

Common misspellings include "ecxommunication", "exccommunication", "excmomunication", "excommnuication", "excommuincation". The correct spelling is "excommunication".

How do you pronounce "excommunication"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "excommunication" is /ɛkskəmjuːnɪˈkeɪʃən/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What is the origin of the word "excommunication"?

From Middle English excommunicacion, from Late Latin excommūnicātiō. By surface analysis, excommunicate + -ion. Displaced native Old English āmǣnsumung. See the full etymology section above for more details.

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Using “excommunication”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

The one correct English spelling is E-X-C-O-M-M-U-N-I-C-A-T-I-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.