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serration

noun

serration is a noun meaning “The state of being serrated” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-E-R-R-A-T-I-O-N, and it appears about once in every 24 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of serration is serrations.

What does serration mean?

noun

  1. 1

    The state of being serrated.

  2. 2

    A set of teeth or notches.

  3. 3

    One of the teeth in a serrated or serrate edge.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of serration

  • serrations plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is serration?

Serration appears about once in every 24 million words in written English, the 148,541st 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).

Serration in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Spanishserración (state of being serrated)
Frenchserration, dentelure (set of teeth or notches)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.