obliteration
"obliteration" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“obliteration” is uncommon English (frequency #61,674 among 1,431 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,674
- frequency rank, English
- 1,431
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The total destruction of something.
Corpus desk
Index EN-obliteration · obliteration · English
obliteration · rank #61,674 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,674
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,431
- PHOTO-FINISH Obadiah
Nearest frequency peer: Obadiah (-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 “obliteration”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- nop
nop
38,333 corpus weight
- nosedive
nosedive
38,331 corpus weight
- Obadiah
Obadiah
38,328 corpus weight
- obliteration
obliteration
38,327 corpus weight
- oliva
oliva
38,324 corpus weight
- omniscience
omniscience
38,323 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “obliteration” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | obliteration |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #61,674 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “obliteration” in English
Rare enough to double-check
obliteration is uncommon English at frequency #61,674 among 1,431 “O” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for obliteration in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From obliterate + -ion. The correct English form is obliteration, spelled O-B-L-I-T-E-R-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1The total destruction of something.
- 2The concealing or covering of something.
- 3The cancellation, erasure or deletion of something.
- 4The cancellation of the function, structure, or both of a vessel or organ; for example, the occlusion of the lumen of a duct, blood vessel, or lymphatic vessel, be it solely functional (as when squeezed by nearby mass effect or inflammation) or both structural and functional (as when clogged with thrombus, embolus, or fibrosis).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how obliteration appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
This illustration depicts exoplanet Kepler-1658b (left), doomed to eventual obliteration by its aging host star.
Stark before-and-after images reveal the obliteration of Bakhmut [title]
Etymology
From obliterate + -ion.
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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