adsorption
noun
adsorption is spelled A-D-S-O-R-P-T-I-O-N. The wrong spelling people search most is adsorbtion: about 50 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 16 of all searches for the word. Adsorption is a noun meaning “The adhesion of a liquid or gas on the surface of a solid material, forming a thin film on the surface”. The plural of adsorption is adsorptions.
How many letters and syllables are in adsorption?
| Letters | 10: A-D-S-O-R-P-T-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 1 million words; the 33,236th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, adsorbtion, about 50 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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).
How do you spell adsorption?
Adsorption is spelled A-D-S-O-R-P-T-I-O-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 16 of the searches for adsorption 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 adsorption?
Adsorption appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 33,236th 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 adsorption?
- US
Adsorption 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vininn126-adsorption.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of adsorption
- adsorptions plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does adsorption mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The adhesion of a liquid or gas on the surface of a solid material, forming a thin film on the surface.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Adsorption in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense process of forming a film on the surface of a solid:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | adsorption |
| German | Adsorption |
| Portuguese | adsorção |
| Spanish | adsorción |
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 adsorption come from?
Borrowed from German Adsorption, from ad- + (Ab)sorption.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).