sequestration
"sequestration" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sequestration” has 20 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #31,760. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,760
- frequency rank, English
- 54,294
- “S” headwords
- 20
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The process or act of sequestering; a putting aside or separating.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sequestration |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #31,760 |
| Misspellings tracked | 20 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sequestration” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 20 spelling variants around sequestration, anoun. Corpus frequency is #31,760 among 54,294 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "The process or act of sequestering; a putting aside or separating.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 20 likely wrong-spelling variants for sequestration, with forms such as "esquestration", "seqeustration", and "seqquestration". 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. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle French sequestration, from Late Latin sequestrātiō, from Latin sequestrō (“sequester”). The correct English form is sequestration, spelled S-E-Q-U-E-S-T-R-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1The process or act of sequestering; a putting aside or separating.
Etymology
From Middle French sequestration, from Late Latin sequestrātiō, from Latin sequestrō (“sequester”).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- esquestration
- seqeustration
- seqquestration
- sequesrtation
- sequesstration
- sequestartion
- sequestraiton
- sequestrasion
- sequestratino
- sequestrationn
- sequestratoin
- sequestrattion
- sequestrration
- sequestrtaion
- sequesttration
- sequetsration
- sequsetration
- seuqestration
- sqeuestration
- ssequestration
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sequestration - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Using “sequestration”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-E-Q-U-E-S-T-R-A-T-I-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.