seriation
noun
seriation is a noun meaning “the arrangement of things in a series” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-E-R-I-A-T-I-O-N, and it appears about once in every 48 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of seriation is seriations.
What does seriation mean?
noun
- 1
the arrangement of things in a series
- 2
the relative dating of archaeological artifacts in a chronological order
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of seriation
- seriations plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is seriation?
Seriation appears about once in every 48 million words in written English, the 214,628th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does seriation come from?
From seriate + -ion.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).