pollination
/ˌpɒlɪˈneɪʃən/
"pollination" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“pollination” has 15 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #29,791. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,791
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The transfer of pollen from an anther to a stigma; effected by insects, birds, bats and the wind etc.
Corpus desk
Index EN-pollination · pollination · English
pollination · rank #29,791 · 15 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,791
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH pledging
Nearest frequency peer: pledging (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “pollination”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- phasing
phasing
70,214 corpus weight
- phrasing
phrasing
70,212 corpus weight
- pledging
pledging
70,211 corpus weight
- pollination
pollination
70,210 corpus weight
- pooled
pooled
70,209 corpus weight
- postpartum
postpartum
70,208 corpus weight
What this shows “pollination” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pollination |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˌpɒlɪˈneɪʃən/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #29,791 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “pollination”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around pollination (IPA /ˌpɒlɪˈneɪʃən/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,791 among 4,417 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "The transfer of pollen from an anther to a stigma; effected by insects, birds, bats and the wind etc.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for pollination, with forms such as "opllination", "plolination", and "polilnation". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is pollination, spelled P-O-L-L-I-N-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1The transfer of pollen from an anther to a stigma; effected by insects, birds, bats and the wind etc.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opllination
- plolination
- polilnation
- polination
- polliantion
- pollinaiton
- pollinasion
- pollinatino
- pollinationn
- pollinatoin
- pollinattion
- pollinnation
- pollintaion
- pollniation
- ppollination
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pollination - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).