solidification
"solidification" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“solidification” is uncommon English (frequency #77,217 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,217
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The action of solidifying.
Corpus desk
Index EN-solidification · solidification · English
solidification · rank #77,217 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,217
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH somatosensory
Nearest frequency peer: somatosensory (+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.
Long-tail ranks near “solidification”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- smallness
smallness
22,791 corpus weight
- soaker
soaker
22,787 corpus weight
- solidificat…
solidification
22,784 corpus weight
- somatosenso…
somatosensory
22,783 corpus weight
- SOTA
SOTA
22,781 corpus weight
- Spadina
Spadina
22,779 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “solidification” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | solidification |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #77,217 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “solidification” in English
Rare enough to double-check
solidification is uncommon English at frequency #77,217 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
solidification doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From French solidification, or from solid + -ification. The correct English form is solidification, spelled S-O-L-I-D-I-F-I-C-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1The action of solidifying.
- 2Concentration or consolidation.
- 3The tendency to transform an open compound into a closed compound (solid compound).
Etymology
From French solidification, or from solid + -ification.
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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