# stagnation

> English word · Noun · IPA /stæɡˈneɪʃn̩/ · frequency rank #22,825

## Definitions
1. The state of being stagnant; (countable) an instance of this.
2. The state of being stagnant; (countable) an instance of this.
3. The state of being stagnant; (countable) an instance of this.

## Etymology
From stagnate + -ation (suffix denoting an action or process, or its result), Stagnate is derived from stagnāt-, the participial stem of Latin stagnāre, the present active infinitive of stāgnō (“of waters: to cover the land as a lake, to become a pool, to stagnate”), from stāgnum (“body of standing water (lake, swamp, etc.)”) (possibly from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂g- (“to drip; to seep”)) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs).

## Easily confused with
- **starvation** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stagnation-vs-starvation)

## Common misspellings (16)
`satgnation`, `sstagnation`, `stagantion`, `staggnation`, `stagnaiton`, `stagnasion`, `stagnatino`, `stagnationn`, `stagnatoin`, `stagnattion`, `stagnnation`, `stagntaion`, `stangation`, `stganation`, `sttagnation`, `tsagnation`

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