accumulation
ac·cu·mu·la·tion/əˌkjuːm.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/noun
accumulation is spelled A-C-C-U-M-U-L-A-T-I-O-N, 5 syllables: ac·cu·mu·la·tion. The wrong spelling people search most is accummulation: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 110 of all searches for the word. Accumulation is a noun meaning “The act of amassing or gathering, as into a pile”. The plural of accumulation is accumulations.
How many letters and syllables are in accumulation?
| Letters | 12: A-C-C-U-M-U-L-A-T-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 5: ac·cu·mu·la·tion |
| In writing | 3.9 times per million words; the 13,127th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, accummulation, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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).
How do you spell accumulation?
Accumulation is spelled A-C-C-U-M-U-L-A-T-I-O-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 110 of the searches for accumulation 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 accumulation?
Accumulation appears 3.9 times per million words in written English, the 13,127th 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 accumulation?
- /əˌkjuːm.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/
Accumulation has 5 syllables, split ac·cu·mu·la·tion in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-accumulation.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of accumulation
- accumulations plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does accumulation mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The act of amassing or gathering, as into a pile.
- 2
The process of growing into a heap or a large amount.
an accumulation of earth, of sand, of evils, of wealth, or of honors
- 3
A mass of something piled up or collected.
- 4
The concurrence of several titles to the same proof.
- 5
The continuous growth of capital by retention of interest or savings.
- 6
The action of investors buying an asset from other investors when the price of the asset is low.
- 7
UKThe practice of taking two higher degrees simultaneously, to reduce the length of study.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Accumulation in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Anhäufung , Konkurrenz |
| Portuguese | acumulação, acúmulo |
| Spanish | acumulación, acúmulo |
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.