funeral procession
"funeral-procession" is a 17-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“funeral procession” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A procession, usually in motor vehicles or by foot, from a funeral home or place of worship to the cemetery or crematorium, accompanying the deceased.
Corpus desk
Index EN-funeral-procession · funeral procession · English
funeral procession · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 18 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" 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 | funeral procession |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “funeral procession” in English
Rare enough to double-check
funeral procession is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A procession, usually in motor vehicles or by foot, from a funeral home or place of worship to the cemetery or crematorium, accompanying the deceased.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for funeral procession in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is funeral procession, spelled F-U-N-E-R-A-L- -P-R-O-C-E-S-S-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1A procession, usually in motor vehicles or by foot, from a funeral home or place of worship to the cemetery or crematorium, accompanying the deceased.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how funeral procession appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
After his death on April 21, Vatican officials moved to prepare his body for one last journey: a funeral procession to the church where he will be buried as the 266th pope.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.