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natation

/nəˈteɪ.ʃən/noun

natation is a noun meaning “The act or process of swimming” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled N-A-T-A-T-I-O-N, and it appears about once in every 79 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does natation mean?

noun

  1. 1

    The act or process of swimming

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce natation?

  • /nəˈteɪ.ʃən/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-natation.oga, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

How common is natation?

Natation appears about once in every 79 million words in written English, the 282,993rd most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does natation come from?

Borrowed from Latin natātiō.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).