exhumation
/ˌɛks.hjuːˈmeɪ.ʃən/
"exhumation" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“exhumation” is an uncommon English word, ranked #62,878 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #62,878
- frequency rank, English
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The act of digging up that which has been buried.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | exhumation |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˌɛks.hjuːˈmeɪ.ʃən/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #62,878 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “exhumation” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for exhumation is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˌɛks.hjuːˈmeɪ.ʃən/. Corpus data places it at rank #62,878 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "The act of digging up that which has been buried.".
exhumation doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is exhumation, spelled E-X-H-U-M-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1The act of digging up that which has been buried.
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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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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is E-X-H-U-M-A-T-I-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˌɛks.hjuːˈmeɪ.ʃən/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.