peregrination
/ˌpɛɹɪɡɹɪˈneɪʃn̩/
"peregrination" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“peregrination” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A person's life regarded as a temporary stay on earth and a journey to the afterlife.
Corpus desk
Index EN-peregrination · peregrination · English
peregrination · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | peregrination |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˌpɛɹɪɡɹɪˈneɪʃn̩/ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “peregrination” in English
Rare enough to double-check
peregrination is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˌpɛɹɪɡɹɪˈneɪʃn̩/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
peregrination doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Late Middle English peregrinacioun, peregrinacion (“journey; pilgrimage; (figuratively) human journey through life”), from Anglo-Norman peregrinaciun (“human journey through life”), peregrination (“pilgrimage; overseas travel”), and Old French peregrin… The correct English form is peregrination, spelled P-E-R-E-G-R-I-N-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1A person's life regarded as a temporary stay on earth and a journey to the afterlife.
- 2A journey made by a pilgrim; a pilgrimage; also (uncountable) the making of pilgrimages.
- 3A journey or trip, especially by foot; also (uncountable) journeying, travelling.
- 4Broad or systematic discussion of a subject; (countable) an instance of this; a discourse.
- 5Straying from the main subject in speech or writing; digression; (countable) an instance of this.
- 6The state of living abroad temporarily; sojourning; (countable) an act of doing this; a sojourn.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how peregrination appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
It is true our life in this vvorld is not called a baniſhment any vvhere in the Scripture: but a pilgrimage, a peregrination, a travell; but perigrinatio cum ignominia conjunctu, exilium; he that leaves his Countrey becauſe he vvas aſhamed, or afraid to return to it, or to ſtay in it, is a baniſhed man.
According to the mode of that time, he [Cnut the Great] made a pilgrimage to Rome, with a view to expiate the crimes, which paved his way to the throne; but he made a good use of this peregrination, and returned full of the observations he had made in the country, through which he had passed, which he turned to the benefit of his extensive dominions.
Etymology
From Late Middle English peregrinacioun, peregrinacion (“journey; pilgrimage; (figuratively) human journey through life”), from Anglo-Norman peregrinaciun (“human journey through life”), peregrination (“pilgrimage; overseas travel”), and Old French peregrinacion, peregrination (“pilgrimage; overseas travel”) (modern French pérégrination), and from their etymon Latin peregrīnātiō (“overseas sojourn or travel; (Late Latin) pilgrimage; sojourn; human journey through life”), from peregrīnātus (“living or travelling overseas”) + -iō (suffix forming abstract nouns). Peregrīnātus is the perfect passive participle of peregrīnor (“to live or travel overseas; to be overseas; to roam, rove; to be a stranger”), from peregrīnus (“alien, foreign; exotic”) (from peregrē̆ (“abroad; from abroad; heading abroad”) + -īnus (suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘of or pertaining to’)) + -or (suffix forming first-person singular present passive indicative verbs).
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.