exoneration
"exoneration" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“exoneration” is uncommon English (frequency #60,799 among 2,246 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,799
- frequency rank, English
- 2,246
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An act of disburdening, discharging, or freeing morally from a charge or imputation.
Corpus desk
Index EN-exoneration · exoneration · English
exoneration · rank #60,799 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,799
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH existentialist
Nearest frequency peer: existentialist (-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 “exoneration”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Estee
Estee
39,207 corpus weight
- Etobicoke
Etobicoke
39,205 corpus weight
- existential…
existentialist
39,203 corpus weight
- exoneration
exoneration
39,202 corpus weight
- farmstead
farmstead
39,200 corpus weight
- Faulk
Faulk
39,198 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “exoneration” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | exoneration |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #60,799 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “exoneration” in English
Rare enough to double-check
exoneration is uncommon English at frequency #60,799 among 2,246 “E” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
exoneration has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. 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 exonerātiō. By surface analysis, exonerate + -ion. The correct English form is exoneration, spelled E-X-O-N-E-R-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1An act of disburdening, discharging, or freeing morally from a charge or imputation.
- 2The state of being disburdened or freed from a charge.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how exoneration appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Alpaca. (Camelus Pacos,) also Paco. […] This animal, like the camel, is domable, and will carry from seven to nine stone; it will fall on its knees for the convenient reception and exoneration of its burthen.
Mr. Spitzer’s proposal also calls for the creation of a state office that would be responsible for studying all cases that resulted in exonerations and looking for flaws in the system that led to those wrongful convictions.
Etymology
From Latin exonerātiō. By surface analysis, exonerate + -ion.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).