pregnation
"pregnation" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“pregnation” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pregnancy.
Corpus desk
Index EN-pregnation · pregnation · English
pregnation · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pregnation |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “pregnation” in English
Rare enough to double-check
pregnation is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pregnancy.".
No misspelling variants are generated for pregnation in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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 Middle English pregnacioun, from Old French pregnacion and Latin praegnātiō. The correct English form is pregnation, spelled P-R-E-G-N-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Pregnancy.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pregnation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pregnation. Being great with childe.[…]a being great with Childe. Pregnation, Grauidation.
But purging is more proper if it may bee done without danger, as it may in the fourth, fift and ſixt month of pregnation: for a child in the wombe is compared to an Apple on the tree.
Etymology
From Middle English pregnacioun, from Old French pregnacion and Latin praegnātiō.
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.