felicitation
noun
felicitation is a noun meaning “The act of felicitating; a wishing of joy or happiness; congratulation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-E-L-I-C-I-T-A-T-I-O-N, and it appears about once in every 21 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of felicitation is felicitations.
What does felicitation mean?
noun
- 1
The act of felicitating; a wishing of joy or happiness; congratulation.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce felicitation?
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-felicitation.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of felicitation
- felicitations plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is felicitation?
Felicitation appears about once in every 21 million words in written English, the 139,999th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does felicitation come from?
From felicitate + -ion.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).