explicitation
"explicitation" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“explicitation” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The process or fact of becoming explicit or of causing to be explicit; that which makes something explicit.
Corpus desk
Index EN-explicitation · explicitation · English
explicitation · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "E" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | explicitation |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “explicitation” in English
Rare enough to double-check
explicitation is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The process or fact of becoming explicit or of causing to be explicit; that which makes something explicit.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for explicitation, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From explicit + -ation. The correct English form is explicitation, spelled E-X-P-L-I-C-I-T-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1The process or fact of becoming explicit or of causing to be explicit; that which makes something explicit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how explicitation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[N]ot only are the two factors of reality [i.e., objective and subjective] exposures or explicitations of each other, each being always the other's inside made outside, implicit made explicit, but also in our thought of them as incidents of one process or activity it can certainly be no more true that they influence each other or act causally on each othe…
The further attributes of matter—e.g. motion, space, time, substantiality, and reflection—appear merely as explicitations and concretizations of the fundamental thesis on the priority of matter over consciousness.
Etymology
From explicit + -ation.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.