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preregistration

noun, adjective

preregistration is spelled P-R-E-R-E-G-I-S-T-R-A-T-I-O-N: 15 letters. It appears about once in every 25 million words in written English, the 150,355th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, preregistration means “An early registration, before the normal or traditional time, as with early online check-in at hotels” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of preregistration is preregistrations.

How many letters and syllables are in preregistration?

Letters15: P-R-E-R-E-G-I-S-T-R-A-T-I-O-N
In writingabout once in every 25 million words; the 150,355th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is preregistration?

Preregistration appears about once in every 25 million words in written English, the 150,355th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Forms of preregistration

  • preregistrations plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does preregistration mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    An early registration, before the normal or traditional time, as with early online check-in at hotels.

  2. 2

    Registration (of a study design) before a clinical trial (or any other type of scientific experiment) begins, for methodologic and thus epistemologic rigor.

adjective

  1. 1

    Before registration.

    a preregistration check

  2. 2

    Pertaining to preregistration (of scientific trials or other experiments).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does preregistration come from?

From pre- + registration.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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