incrimination
"incrimination" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“incrimination” is uncommon English (frequency #58,761 among 2,140 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,761
- frequency rank, English
- 2,140
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act of incriminating someone.
Corpus desk
Index EN-incrimination · incrimination · English
incrimination · rank #58,761 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,761
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH inconsolable
Nearest frequency peer: inconsolable (-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 “incrimination”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- ideologue
ideologue
41,243 corpus weight
- illuminator
illuminator
41,242 corpus weight
- inconsolable
inconsolable
41,241 corpus weight
- incriminati…
incrimination
41,240 corpus weight
- indulges
indulges
41,239 corpus weight
- ineffable
ineffable
41,238 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “incrimination” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | incrimination |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #58,761 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “incrimination” in English
Rare enough to double-check
incrimination is uncommon English at frequency #58,761 among 2,140 “I” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The act of incriminating someone.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for incrimination in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Medieval Latin incriminatus ( + -ion), from incrimino, from Latin crimino. Equivalent to incriminate + -ion. The correct English form is incrimination, spelled I-N-C-R-I-M-I-N-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1The act of incriminating someone.
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin incriminatus ( + -ion), from incrimino, from Latin crimino. Equivalent to incriminate + -ion.
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); 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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