reservation
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "reservation", 11-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Hunspell error dictionaries, and usage frequency ranked against the top 100,000 English words in the Wordfreq corpus. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "reservation" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "reservation" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
reservation is aEnglishnoun. It means: The act of reserving, withholding or keeping back. Pronounced /ˌɹɛz.ɚˈveɪ.ʃən/. It ranks #7,733 in English word frequency.
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| Headword | reservation |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˌɹɛz.ɚˈveɪ.ʃən/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #7,733 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The English entry for reservation is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˌɹɛz.ɚˈveɪ.ʃən/. Corpus data places it at rank #7,733 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 17 documented wrong-spelling variants for reservation, with forms such as "erservation", "reesrvation", and "reseravtion". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle French reservation, equivalent to reserve + -ation. Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is reservation, spelled R-E-S-E-R-V-A-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1The act of reserving, withholding or keeping back.
- 2The act of reserving, withholding or keeping back.
- 3The act of reserving, withholding or keeping back.
- 4Something that is withheld or kept back.
- 5A limiting qualification regarding certainty or risk; a doubt or concern.
- 6A tract of land set apart by the US government for the use of a Native American people, such as the Hopi Reservation or the Navajo Nation's territory.
- 7An arrangement by which accommodation or transport arrangements are secured in advance.
- 8The area which separates opposing lanes of traffic on a divided motorway or dual carriageway.
- 9The setting aside of a certain percentage of vacancies in government institutions for members of backward and underrepresented communities (defined primarily by caste and tribe).
- 10A power of an overseeing authority to suspend legislation in the jurisdiction being overseen pending the approval of a higher authority. Such as a provincial/state governor reserving a bill passed by the state/provincial legislature from assent, pending approval of the federal government; or a federal bill passed by federal parliament being reserved by the viceroy pending approval by the crown.
Etymology
From Middle French reservation, equivalent to reserve + -ation.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: erservation,reesrvation,reseravtion,reserrvation,reservaiton,reservasion,reservatino,reservationn,reservatoin,reservattion,reservtaion,reservvation,resevration,resrevation,resservation,rreservation,rseervation
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Frequency rank: #7,733 in English
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