# ordination

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˌɔːdɪˈneɪʃn̩/ · frequency rank #16,985

## Definitions
1. The act of ordaining or the state of being ordained.
2. The ceremony in which a priest is consecrated, considered a sacrament in the Catholic and Orthodox churches.
3. the ceremony in which a bhikkhu or bhikkhuni is ordained into the sangha
4. A statistical technique for ordering data from a large number of sites or populations by arranging the data as points in a multidimensional coordinate frame, in which patterns can be discerned; an instance of this.

## Etymology
From Middle French ordination, from Old French ordinacion, from Latin ordinatio.

## Easily confused with
- **ordinator** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ordination-vs-ordinator)
- **origination** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ordination-vs-origination)

## Common misspellings (15)
`odrination`, `orddination`, `ordiantion`, `ordinaiton`, `ordinasion`, `ordinatino`, `ordinationn`, `ordinatoin`, `ordinattion`, `ordinnation`, `ordintaion`, `ordniation`, `oridnation`, `orrdination`, `rodination`

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