abrasion
/əˈbɹeɪ.ʒən/noun
abrasion is spelled A-B-R-A-S-I-O-N. The wrong spelling people search most is abration: about 80 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 72 of all searches for the word. Abrasion is a noun meaning “The act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction”. The plural of abrasion is abrasions.
How many letters and syllables are in abrasion?
| Letters | 8: A-B-R-A-S-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 1 million words; the 32,393rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, abration, about 80 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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); 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell abrasion?
Abrasion is spelled A-B-R-A-S-I-O-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 72 of the searches for abrasion 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.
How common is abrasion?
Abrasion appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 32,393rd 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 abrasion?
- US /əˈbɹeɪ.ʒən/
Abrasion has 3 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-abrasion.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with abrasion?
4 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as abrasion from its last stressed vowel (/eɪʒən/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of abrasion
- abrasions plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does abrasion mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction.
The metal surface showed signs of abrasion after years of use.
- 2
An act of abrasiveness.
- 3
obsoleteThe substance thus rubbed off; debris.
- 4
The effect of mechanical erosion of rock, especially a river bed, by rock fragments scratching and scraping it.
- 5
An abraded, scraped, or worn area.
- 6
A superficial wound caused by scraping; an area of skin where the cells on the surface have been scraped or worn away.
The doctor cleaned the small skin abrasion on her knee.
- 7
The wearing away of the surface of the tooth by chewing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Abrasion in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | abrasion |
| German | Abrasion, Abschürfen, Abtragen, Abnutzung , Abrieb |
| Portuguese | abrasamento, raspagem, abrasão |
| Spanish | abrasión, rasión, raedura , erosión |
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 abrasion come from?
First attested in 1656. From French abrasion (attested since 1611), from Medieval Latin abrasio (“a scraping”), from Latin abrādō (“scrape off”). See also abrade.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).