# modification

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˌmɑdɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/ · frequency rank #10,088

## Definitions
1. The act of assessing and prescribing a payment, penalty, price, valuation, etc.
2. The form of existence belonging to a particular object, entity etc.; a mode of being.
3. The change undergone by a word when used in a construction.
4. The result of modifying something; a new or changed form.
5. The act of making a change to something while keeping its essential character intact; an alteration or adjustment.
6. A change to an organism as a result of its environment that is not transmissable to offspring.
7. A change to a word when it is borrowed by another language.

## Etymology
From Middle English modificatioune, from Middle French modification and its etymon Latin modificātiō (“a measuring”), from modificāre (“to limit, control, modify”); see modify. By surface analysis, modify + -ication.

## Common misspellings (18)
`mdoification`, `mmodification`, `moddification`, `modfiication`, `modifciation`, `modiffication`, `modifiaction`, `modificaiton`, `modificasion`, `modificatino`, `modificationn`, `modificatoin`, `modificattion`, `modificcation`, `modifictaion`, `modiifcation`, `moidfication`, `omdification`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/modification