percolation
/pɝkəˈleɪʃən/
"percolation" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“percolation” is uncommon English (frequency #78,007 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,007
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The seepage or filtration of a liquid through a porous substance.
Corpus desk
Index EN-percolation · percolation · English
percolation · rank #78,007 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,007
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH Pema
Nearest frequency peer: Pema (-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 “percolation”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- pbk
pbk
21,998 corpus weight
- Pema
Pema
21,995 corpus weight
- percolation
percolation
21,994 corpus weight
- perpendicul…
perpendicularly
21,993 corpus weight
- Perris
Perris
21,992 corpus weight
- pervade
pervade
21,990 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “percolation” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | percolation |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /pɝkəˈleɪʃən/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #78,007 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “percolation” in English
Rare enough to double-check
percolation is uncommon English at frequency #78,007 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /pɝkəˈleɪʃən/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The seepage or filtration of a liquid through a porous substance.".
Zero misspellings are on record for percolation in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin percōlātiō. The correct English form is percolation, spelled P-E-R-C-O-L-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1The seepage or filtration of a liquid through a porous substance.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how percolation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
With simultaneous measurement of channel conductivity and its slow time-dependent fluctuation (or noise) in ultra-thin WSe2 and MoS2 FETs on insulating SiO2 substrates, where noise arises from McWhorter-type carrier number fluctuations, we establish that the switching in conventional backgated TMDC FETs is a classical percolation transition in a medium of…
Etymology
From Latin percōlātiō.
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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