# valuation

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˌvæ.ljuːˈeɪ.ʃən/ · frequency rank #10,474

## Definitions
1. An estimation of something's worth.
2. The process of estimating the value of a financial asset or liability.
3. An assignment of truth values to propositional variables, with a corresponding assignment of truth values to all propositional formulas with those variables (obtained through the recursive application of truth-valued functions corresponding to the logical connectives making up those formulas).
4. A structure, and the corresponding assignment of a truth value to each sentence in the language for that structure.
5. A measure of size or multiplicity.
6. A map from the class of open sets of a topological space to the set of positive real numbers including infinity.

## Etymology
From Middle French valuation, noun of action from valuer, from Old French valoir.

## Easily confused with
- **variation** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/valuation-vs-variation)
- **vacation** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/vacation-vs-valuation)
- **validation** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/validation-vs-valuation)

## Common misspellings (13)
`avluation`, `valaution`, `valluation`, `valuaiton`, `valuasion`, `valuatino`, `valuationn`, `valuatoin`, `valuattion`, `valutaion`, `vaulation`, `vlauation`, `vvaluation`

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