vegetation
/ˌvɛd͡ʒəˈteɪʃən/noun
vegetation is spelled V-E-G-E-T-A-T-I-O-N: 10 letters and 4 syllables. It appears 5.9 times per million words in written English, the 10,028th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, vegetation means “Plants, taken collectively” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of vegetation is vegetations.
How many letters and syllables are in vegetation?
| Letters | 10: V-E-G-E-T-A-T-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 5.9 times per million words; the 10,028th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How common is vegetation?
Vegetation appears 5.9 times per million words in written English, the 10,028th 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).
How do you pronounce vegetation?
- /ˌvɛd͡ʒəˈteɪʃən/
Vegetation has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-vegetation.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of vegetation
- vegetations plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does vegetation mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Plants, taken collectively.
There were large amounts of vegetation in the forest.
- 2
An abnormal mass on an endocardial surface, especially a heart valve, composed chiefly of fibrin and platelets and often containing microorganisms.
- 3
datedAn excrescent, verrucous or fibrinous growth on a mucosal or epithelial surface.
- 4
The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Vegetation in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense plants:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | végétation |
| German | Vegetation, Pflanzenwuchs |
| Portuguese | vegetação |
| Spanish | vegetación |
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 vegetation come from?
Borrowed from Middle French végétation, from Medieval Latin vegetātiōnem.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).