# reputation

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˌɹɛpjʊˈteɪʃən/ · frequency rank #3,193

## Definitions
1. What somebody or something is known for.

## Etymology
14c. "credit, good reputation", from Middle English reputacion, reputacioun, reputation, reputatioun, from Anglo-Norman reputacion, reputacioun, Middle French reputation (French réputation), and their etymon Latin reputātiōnem (“consideration, thinking over”), noun of action from past participle stem of reputō (“reflect upon, reckon, count over”), from the prefix re- (“again”) + putō (“reckon, consider”). By surface analysis, repute + -ation. Displaced native Old English hlīsa (“reputation, fame”)

## Easily confused with
- **regulation** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/regulation-vs-reputation)
- **repetition** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/repetition-vs-reputation)
- **recitation** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/recitation-vs-reputation)
- **reparation** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/reparation-vs-reputation)
- **refutation** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/refutation-vs-reputation)
- **repudiation** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/repudiation-vs-reputation)

## Common misspellings (15)
`erputation`, `repputation`, `reptuation`, `repuattion`, `reputaiton`, `reputasion`, `reputatino`, `reputationn`, `reputatoin`, `reputattion`, `reputtaion`, `reputtation`, `reuptation`, `rpeutation`, `rreputation`

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