piscation

noun

"piscation" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“piscation” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
9
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - fishing; fishery

Corpus desk

Index EN-piscation · piscation · English

piscation · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 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.

Key facts for piscation
PropertyValue
Headwordpiscation
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “piscation” in English

piscationranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

piscation is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "fishing; fishery".

No generated misspelling entries exist for piscation in our index, 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 nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin piscatio, from piscari (“to fish”). The correct English form is piscation, spelled P-I-S-C-A-T-I-O-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    fishing; fishery

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how piscation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. There are extant of his in Greek, four books of Cynegeticks or Venation, five of Halieuticks or Piscation, commented and published by Ritterhusius; wherein describing beasts of venery and fishes

Etymology

From Latin piscatio, from piscari (“to fish”).

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "piscation"?
"piscation" is spelled P-I-S-C-A-T-I-O-N.
What does "piscation" mean?
As a noun, "piscation" means: fishing; fishery
What is the origin of the word "piscation"?
From Latin piscatio, from piscari (“to fish”). See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list