truncation
/tɹʌŋˈkeɪʃən/
"truncation" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“truncation” is uncommon English (frequency #68,709 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,709
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act of truncating or shortening (for example, words are shortened to form blend words or portmanteaus).
Corpus desk
Index EN-truncation · truncation · English
truncation · rank #68,709 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,709
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH tuco
Nearest frequency peer: tuco (+2 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 “truncation”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- tramping
tramping
31,297 corpus weight
- trendsetter
trendsetter
31,295 corpus weight
- truncation
truncation
31,292 corpus weight
- tuco
tuco
31,290 corpus weight
- twining
twining
31,289 corpus weight
- umbilicus
umbilicus
31,286 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “truncation” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | truncation |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /tɹʌŋˈkeɪʃən/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #68,709 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “truncation” in English
Rare enough to double-check
truncation is uncommon English at frequency #68,709 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /tɹʌŋˈkeɪʃən/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
truncation doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Late Latin truncātiō, from Latin truncāre, past participle truncātus (“to cut off”). By surface analysis, truncate + -ion. The correct English form is truncation, spelled T-R-U-N-C-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1The act of truncating or shortening (for example, words are shortened to form blend words or portmanteaus).
- 2The removal of the least significant digits from a decimal number.
- 3An operation in any dimension that cuts a regular polytope at its vertices, creating a new facet in place of each vertex.
Etymology
From Late Latin truncātiō, from Latin truncāre, past participle truncātus (“to cut off”). By surface analysis, truncate + -ion.
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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