incapacitation
/ˌɪn.kəˌpæs.ɪˈteɪ.ʃən/
"incapacitation" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“incapacitation” is uncommon English (frequency #77,794 among 17,902 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,794
- frequency rank, English
- 17,902
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The act of incapacitating or state of being incapacitated; incapacity; disqualification.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | incapacitation |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˌɪn.kəˌpæs.ɪˈteɪ.ʃən/ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #77,794 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “incapacitation” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
incapacitation is uncommon English at frequency #77,794 among 17,902 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˌɪn.kəˌpæs.ɪˈteɪ.ʃən/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
incapacitation has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is incapacitation, spelled I-N-C-A-P-A-C-I-T-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1The act of incapacitating or state of being incapacitated; incapacity; disqualification.
- 2The act of incapacitating or state of being incapacitated; incapacity; disqualification.
Synonyms
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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Using “incapacitation”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is I-N-C-A-P-A-C-I-T-A-T-I-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.