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opacification

noun

opacification is spelled O-P-A-C-I-F-I-C-A-T-I-O-N: 13 letters. It appears about once in every 55 million words in written English, the 231,291st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, opacification means “The action of making something opaque or cloudy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of opacification is opacifications.

How many letters and syllables are in opacification?

Letters13: O-P-A-C-I-F-I-C-A-T-I-O-N
In writingabout once in every 55 million words; the 231,291st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is opacification?

Opacification appears about once in every 55 million words in written English, the 231,291st 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).

Forms of opacification

  • opacifications plural

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

What does opacification mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    The action of making something opaque or cloudy.

  2. 2

    The act of becoming opaque or cloudy.

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

Opacification in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense act of making something opaque:

LanguageWords
Frenchopacification

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

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