mediation
/ˌmiːdiˈeɪʃən/
"mediation" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mediation” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #14,791. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,791
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Negotiation to resolve differences conducted by an impartial party.
Corpus desk
Index EN-mediation · mediation · English
mediation · rank #14,791 · 12 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,791
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH Merrill
Nearest frequency peer: Merrill (+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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “mediation”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Lois
Lois
85,214 corpus weight
- massively
massively
85,212 corpus weight
- mediation
mediation
85,210 corpus weight
- Merrill
Merrill
85,209 corpus weight
- metrics
metrics
85,208 corpus weight
- modular
modular
85,206 corpus weight
What this shows “mediation” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mediation |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˌmiːdiˈeɪʃən/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #14,791 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “mediation”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around mediation (IPA /ˌmiːdiˈeɪʃən/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,791 among 4,057 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for mediation, with forms such as "emdiation", "mdeiation", and "medaition". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "mediator", "medication", "meditation", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English mediacion, mediacioun, medyacion, medyacyoun from Middle French mediacion and its etymon Late Latin mediātiō, from mediārī (“intervene”), from Latin medius (“middle”). By surface analysis, mediate + -ion. The correct English form is mediation, spelled M-E-D-I-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Negotiation to resolve differences conducted by an impartial party.
- 2The act of intervening for the purpose of bringing about a settlement.
- 3Heritage interpretation.
Etymology
From Middle English mediacion, mediacioun, medyacion, medyacyoun from Middle French mediacion and its etymon Late Latin mediātiō, from mediārī (“intervene”), from Latin medius (“middle”). By surface analysis, mediate + -ion.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emdiation
- mdeiation
- medaition
- meddiation
- mediaiton
- mediasion
- mediatino
- mediationn
- mediatoin
- meditaion
- meidation
- mmediation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mediation - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).