premeditation
"premeditation" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“premeditation” is uncommon English (frequency #58,942 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,942
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act of planning or plotting something in advance, especially a crime.
Corpus desk
Index EN-premeditation · premeditation · English
premeditation · rank #58,942 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,942
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH preload
Nearest frequency peer: preload (-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 “premeditation”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- polyphonic
polyphonic
41,063 corpus weight
- positivism
positivism
41,061 corpus weight
- preload
preload
41,060 corpus weight
- premeditati…
premeditation
41,059 corpus weight
- presidium
presidium
41,057 corpus weight
- promulgation
promulgation
41,055 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “premeditation” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | premeditation |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #58,942 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “premeditation” in English
Rare enough to double-check
premeditation is uncommon English at frequency #58,942 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The act of planning or plotting something in advance, especially a crime.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for premeditation, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Learned borrowing from Latin praemeditātiō. The correct English form is premeditation, spelled P-R-E-M-E-D-I-T-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1The act of planning or plotting something in advance, especially a crime.
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin praemeditātiō.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).