exertions
/əɡˈzɝʃən/
"exertions" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“exertions” is uncommon English (frequency #58,013 among 2,246 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,013
- frequency rank, English
- 2,246
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of exertion
Corpus desk
Index EN-exertions · exertions · English
exertions · rank #58,013 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,013
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH exhaustively
Nearest frequency peer: exhaustively (+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 “exertions”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- enquiring
enquiring
41,998 corpus weight
- exertions
exertions
41,988 corpus weight
- exhaustively
exhaustively
41,987 corpus weight
- exhibitioni…
exhibitionist
41,986 corpus weight
- faun
faun
41,983 corpus weight
- ferrier
ferrier
41,980 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “exertions” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | exertions |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /əɡˈzɝʃən/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #58,013 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “exertions” in English
Rare enough to double-check
exertions is uncommon English at frequency #58,013 among 2,246 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /əɡˈzɝʃən/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of exertion".
Zero misspellings are on record for exertions in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. 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.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is exertions, spelled E-X-E-R-T-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1plural of exertion
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).