# procreation

> English word · Noun · frequency rank #39,971

## Definitions
1. The process by which an organism produces others of its biological kind
2. The sexual activity of conceiving and bearing biological offspring

## Etymology
From Old French procreacion, from Latin prōcreātiō (“generation”), the noun of action from prōcreāre (“to bring forth”), itself from prō- (“forth”) + creāre (“to create”). First attested in c. 1386.

## Common misspellings (17)
`porcreation`, `pprocreation`, `prcoreation`, `proccreation`, `proceration`, `procraetion`, `procreaiton`, `procreasion`, `procreatino`, `procreationn`, `procreatoin`, `procreattion`, `procretaion`, `procrreation`, `prorceation`, `prrocreation`, `rpocreation`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/procreation