maceration
/mæsəˈɹeɪʃən/
"maceration" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“maceration” is uncommon English (frequency #97,260 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,260
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act or process of macerating.
Corpus desk
Index EN-maceration · maceration · English
maceration · rank #97,260 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,260
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH Maco
Nearest frequency peer: Maco (+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 “maceration”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- macaca
macaca
2,743 corpus weight
- maceration
maceration
2,741 corpus weight
- Maco
Maco
2,740 corpus weight
- Madisonville
Madisonville
2,739 corpus weight
- malleus
malleus
2,736 corpus weight
- Malmaison
Malmaison
2,735 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “maceration” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | maceration |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /mæsəˈɹeɪʃən/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #97,260 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “maceration” in English
Rare enough to double-check
maceration is uncommon English at frequency #97,260 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /mæsəˈɹeɪʃən/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The act or process of macerating.".
maceration has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: Latin mācerātiō. The correct English form is maceration, spelled M-A-C-E-R-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1The act or process of macerating.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how maceration appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] proposed that the small size of the teeth […] implied that most of the maceration of the food occurred after swallowing.
Etymology
Latin mācerātiō.
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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