exhalation
"exhalation" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“exhalation” is uncommon English (frequency #60,073 among 2,246 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,073
- frequency rank, English
- 2,246
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act or process of exhaling; breathing out
Corpus desk
Index EN-exhalation · exhalation · English
exhalation · rank #60,073 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,073
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH exfoliation
Nearest frequency peer: exfoliation (-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 “exhalation”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- evolutionar…
evolutionarily
39,931 corpus weight
- exfoliate
exfoliate
39,930 corpus weight
- exfoliation
exfoliation
39,929 corpus weight
- exhalation
exhalation
39,928 corpus weight
- fairyland
fairyland
39,924 corpus weight
- famished
famished
39,923 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “exhalation” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | exhalation |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #60,073 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “exhalation” in English
Rare enough to double-check
exhalation is uncommon English at frequency #60,073 among 2,246 “E” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for exhalation in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin exhālātiō, from exhālō (“to breathe out, to exhale”), from hālō (“to breathe”). Equivalent to exhale + -ation. The correct English form is exhalation, spelled E-X-H-A-L-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1The act or process of exhaling; breathing out
- 2That which is exhaled, or which rises in the form of vapor, fume, or steam
- 3A bright phenomenon; a meteor.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how exhalation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
short exhalations of breath
exhalations from the earth or flowers
Etymology
From Latin exhālātiō, from exhālō (“to breathe out, to exhale”), from hālō (“to breathe”). Equivalent to exhale + -ation.
This word in other languages
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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