fertilisation
"fertilisation" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“fertilisation” is uncommon English (frequency #50,510 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,510
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative spelling of fertilization.
Corpus desk
Index EN-fertilisation · fertilisation · English
fertilisation · rank #50,510 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,510
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH ferrying
Nearest frequency peer: ferrying (-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 “fertilisation”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- favela
favela
49,494 corpus weight
- ferrying
ferrying
49,492 corpus weight
- fertilisati…
fertilisation
49,491 corpus weight
- festivity
festivity
49,490 corpus weight
- FFP
FFP
49,489 corpus weight
- fining
fining
49,488 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “fertilisation” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fertilisation |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #50,510 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “fertilisation” in English
Rare enough to double-check
fertilisation is uncommon English at frequency #50,510 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative spelling of fertilization.".
fertilisation doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From the French; equivalent to fertilise + -ation. The correct English form is fertilisation, spelled F-E-R-T-I-L-I-S-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Alternative spelling of fertilization.
Etymology
From the French; equivalent to fertilise + -ation.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).