sedimentation
"sedimentation" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sedimentation” has 20 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #43,907. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,907
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 20
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The separation of a suspension of solid particles into a concentrated slurry and a supernatant liquid, either to concentrate the solid or to clarify the liquid.
Corpus desk
Index EN-sedimentation · sedimentation · English
sedimentation · rank #43,907 · 20 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #43,907
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 20 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH seafloor
Nearest frequency peer: seafloor (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “sedimentation”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Scheer
Scheer
56,098 corpus weight
- seafloor
seafloor
56,095 corpus weight
- sedimentati…
sedimentation
56,094 corpus weight
- sequestered
sequestered
56,093 corpus weight
- shavings
shavings
56,091 corpus weight
- Shek
Shek
56,090 corpus weight
What this shows “sedimentation” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sedimentation |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #43,907 |
| Misspellings tracked | 20 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “sedimentation”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 20 spelling variants around sedimentation, anoun. Corpus frequency is #43,907 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "The separation of a suspension of solid particles into a concentrated slurry and a supernatant liquid, either to concentrate the solid or to clarify the liquid.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 20 likely wrong-spelling variants for sedimentation, with forms such as "esdimentation", "sdeimentation", and "seddimentation". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "segmentation", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From sediment + -ation. The correct English form is sedimentation, spelled S-E-D-I-M-E-N-T-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1The separation of a suspension of solid particles into a concentrated slurry and a supernatant liquid, either to concentrate the solid or to clarify the liquid.
Etymology
From sediment + -ation.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- esdimentation
- sdeimentation
- seddimentation
- sediemntation
- sedimenattion
- sedimenntation
- sedimentaiton
- sedimentasion
- sedimentatino
- sedimentationn
- sedimentatoin
- sedimentattion
- sedimenttaion
- sedimenttation
- sedimetnation
- sedimmentation
- sedimnetation
- sedmientation
- seidmentation
- ssedimentation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sedimentation - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (20 here; floor ≥5).