specification

Name: specification, English Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

noun

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed May 6, 2026

The verdict

“specification” has 20 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #10,449. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#10,449
frequency rank, English: 54,294
“S” headwords: 20
tracked misspellings

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - An explicit set of requirements to be satisfied by a material, product, or service.

Key facts for specification
Property	Value
Headword	specification
Language	English
Part of speech	Noun
Letters	13
Frequency rank	#10,449
Misspellings tracked	20
Confusable pairs	0
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “specification” sits in English frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). specification lands here:

#10,449

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 20 spelling variants around specification, anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,449 among 54,294 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 20 likely wrong-spelling variants for specification, with forms such as "psecification", "sepcification", and "spceification". 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. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle French specification, from Medieval Latin specificationem (accusative of specificatio). The correct English form is specification, spelled S-P-E-C-I-F-I-C-A-T-I-O-N.

Definition

1
An explicit set of requirements to be satisfied by a material, product, or service.
2
An act of specifying.

Etymology

From Middle French specification, from Medieval Latin specificationem (accusative of specificatio).

This word in other languages

especificación(Español)spécification(Français)Spezifikation(Deutsch)especificação(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

psecification
sepcification
spceification
speccification
specfiication
specifciation
speciffication
specifiaction
specificaiton
specificasion
specificatino
specificationn
specificatoin
specificattion
specificcation
specifictaion
speciifcation
speicfication
sppecification
sspecification

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of specification - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

Edit distance from "specification"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "specification"?

"specification" is spelled S-P-E-C-I-F-I-C-A-T-I-O-N.

What does "specification" mean?

As a noun, "specification" means: An explicit set of requirements to be satisfied by a material, product, or service.

What are common misspellings of "specification"?

Common misspellings include "psecification", "sepcification", "spceification", "speccification", "specfiication". The correct spelling is "specification".

What is the origin of the word "specification"?

From Middle French specification, from Medieval Latin specificationem (accusative of specificatio). See the full etymology section above for more details.

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Using “specification”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

The one correct English spelling is S-P-E-C-I-F-I-C-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.