submersion
"submersion" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“submersion” is uncommon English (frequency #81,871 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,871
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act of submerging, or the state of being submerged; immersion
Corpus desk
Index EN-submersion · submersion · English
submersion · rank #81,871 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,871
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH subliminally
Nearest frequency peer: subliminally (-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 “submersion”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- stubblefield
stubblefield
18,135 corpus weight
- subletting
subletting
18,132 corpus weight
- subliminally
subliminally
18,131 corpus weight
- submersion
submersion
18,130 corpus weight
- Sugiyama
Sugiyama
18,127 corpus weight
- sunbelt
sunbelt
18,124 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “submersion” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | submersion |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #81,871 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “submersion” in English
Rare enough to double-check
submersion is uncommon English at frequency #81,871 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
submersion doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Latin summersio, summersionem. The correct English form is submersion, spelled S-U-B-M-E-R-S-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1The act of submerging, or the state of being submerged; immersion
- 2A differentiable map whose differential is everywhere surjective.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin summersio, summersionem.
This word in other languages
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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