# sophistication

> English word · Noun · IPA /səˌfɪs.tɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/ · frequency rank #20,505

## Definitions
1. Enlightenment or education.
2. Cultivated intellectual worldliness; savoir-faire.
3. Deceptive logic; sophistry.
4. Falsification, contamination.
5. Complexity.
6. Ability to deal with complexity.
7. The act of sophisticating; adulteration.

## Etymology
From Middle English sophisticacion, sophisticacioun, sophisticacoun, from Old French sofisticacion, sophisticacion, from Medieval Latin sophisticātiōnis. By surface analysis, sophisticate + -ion.

## Common misspellings (22)
`osphistication`, `sohpistication`, `sophhistication`, `sophisitcation`, `sophisstication`, `sophistciation`, `sophistiaction`, `sophisticaiton`, `sophisticasion`, `sophisticatino`, `sophisticationn`, `sophisticatoin`, `sophisticattion`, `sophisticcation`, `sophistictaion`, `sophisttication`, `sophitsication`, `sophsitication`, `sopihstication`, `sopphistication`, `spohistication`, `ssophistication`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/sophistication