oviposition
noun
oviposition is spelled O-V-I-P-O-S-I-T-I-O-N. The wrong spelling people search most is ovoposition: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 73 of all searches for the word. Oviposition is a noun meaning “The process or instance of ovipositing, laying eggs”.
How many letters and syllables are in oviposition?
| Letters | 11: O-V-I-P-O-S-I-T-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 10 million words; the 95,993rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, ovoposition, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell oviposition?
Oviposition is spelled O-V-I-P-O-S-I-T-I-O-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 73 of the searches for oviposition in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is oviposition?
Oviposition appears about once in every 10 million words in written English, the 95,993rd 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).
How do you pronounce oviposition?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-oviposition.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What does oviposition mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The process or instance of ovipositing, laying eggs.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Oviposition in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense process of laying eggs:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | oviposição, ovoposição |
| Spanish | oviposición |
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.
Where does oviposition come from?
From ovi- (“egg”) + Latin positiō (“the action of placing”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).