palpation
"palpation" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“palpation” is uncommon English (frequency #89,727 among 46,516 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,727
- frequency rank, English
- 46,516
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The act of feeling or pushing on various parts of a patient’s body to determine medical condition such as the normality of organs or the presence or absence of tumors, swelling, muscle tension, etc.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | palpation |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #89,727 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “palpation” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
palpation is uncommon English at frequency #89,727 among 46,516 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The act of feeling or pushing on various parts of a patient’s body to determine medical condition such as the normality of organs or the presence or absence of tumors, swelling, muscle tension, etc.".
palpation has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From palpate + -ion. The correct English form is palpation, spelled P-A-L-P-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1The act of feeling or pushing on various parts of a patient’s body to determine medical condition such as the normality of organs or the presence or absence of tumors, swelling, muscle tension, etc.
Etymology
From palpate + -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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Using “palpation”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is P-A-L-P-A-T-I-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.