palpation
"palpation" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“palpation” is uncommon English (frequency #89,727 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,727
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 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.
Corpus desk
Index EN-palpation · palpation · English
palpation · rank #89,727 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,727
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH palimpsest
Nearest frequency peer: palimpsest (-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 “palpation”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- oxalic
oxalic
10,280 corpus weight
- Paik
Paik
10,278 corpus weight
- palimpsest
palimpsest
10,275 corpus weight
- palpation
palpation
10,274 corpus weight
- Panjab
Panjab
10,272 corpus weight
- papist
papist
10,269 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “palpation” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “palpation” in English
Rare enough to double-check
palpation is uncommon English at frequency #89,727 among 4,417 “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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).