exhumation
/ˌɛks.hjuːˈmeɪ.ʃən/
"exhumation" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“exhumation” is uncommon English (frequency #62,878 among 2,246 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,878
- frequency rank, English
- 2,246
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act of digging up that which has been buried.
Corpus desk
Index EN-exhumation · exhumation · English
exhumation · rank #62,878 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,878
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH evangelicalism
Nearest frequency peer: evangelicalism (-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 “exhumation”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- endear
endear
37,129 corpus weight
- equilateral
equilateral
37,127 corpus weight
- Escalante
Escalante
37,126 corpus weight
- evanescence
evanescence
37,125 corpus weight
- evangelical…
evangelicalism
37,124 corpus weight
- exhumation
exhumation
37,123 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “exhumation” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “exhumation” in English
Rare enough to double-check
exhumation is uncommon English at frequency #62,878 among 2,246 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˌɛks.hjuːˈmeɪ.ʃən/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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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