variegation
/ˌver.i.əˈɡeɪ.ʃən/noun
variegation is spelled V-A-R-I-E-G-A-T-I-O-N. The wrong spelling people search most is varigation: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Variegation is a noun meaning “A variation in the colour of different zones of the same plant”. The plural of variegation is variegations.
How do you spell variegation?
Variegation is spelled V-A-R-I-E-G-A-T-I-O-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for variegation in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
What does variegation mean?
noun
- 1
A variation in the colour of different zones of the same plant.
- 2
The state of being variegated; streaked, spotted.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce variegation?
- US /ˌver.i.əˈɡeɪ.ʃən/
Variegation has 5 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Yangolin-variegation.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of variegation
- variegations plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is variegation?
Variegation appears about once in every 23 million words in written English, the 146,811th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Variegation in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | variegación, abigarramiento |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does variegation come from?
From variegate + -ion.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).