nucleation
/ˌnukliˈeɪʃən/
"nucleation" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“nucleation” is uncommon English (frequency #58,243 among 1,534 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,243
- frequency rank, English
- 1,534
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The first stage of a phase transition in a small region.
Corpus desk
Index EN-nucleation · nucleation · English
nucleation · rank #58,243 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,243
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,534
- PHOTO-FINISH noobs
Nearest frequency peer: noobs (-3 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 “nucleation”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Niel
Niel
41,764 corpus weight
- Nishikori
Nishikori
41,763 corpus weight
- nitroglycer…
nitroglycerin
41,762 corpus weight
- noobs
noobs
41,761 corpus weight
- nucleation
nucleation
41,758 corpus weight
- OIG
OIG
41,754 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “nucleation” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nucleation |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˌnukliˈeɪʃən/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #58,243 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “nucleation” in English
Rare enough to double-check
nucleation is uncommon English at frequency #58,243 among 1,534 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˌnukliˈeɪʃən/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for nucleation in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is nucleation, spelled N-U-C-L-E-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1The first stage of a phase transition in a small region.
- 2The formation of cell nuclei.
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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