amplification

/ˌæmplɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/noun

amplification is spelled A-M-P-L-I-F-I-C-A-T-I-O-N. The wrong spelling people search most is amplication: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 16 of all searches for the word. Amplification is a noun meaning “The act, or result of amplifying, enlarging, extending or adding”. The plural of amplification is amplifications.

How many letters and syllables are in amplification?

Letters	13: A-M-P-L-I-F-I-C-A-T-I-O-N
Syllables	5 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing	1.3 times per million words; the 24,745th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched	1; the most searched, amplication, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them)
Rhymes with	situation association population administration more

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 amplification?

Amplification is spelled A-M-P-L-I-F-I-C-A-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 amplification in either form.

amplificationthe right spelling300 searches a month

amplicationa missing i, a missing f20 searches a month

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 amplification?

Amplification appears 1.3 times per million words in written English, the 24,745th most frequent word form in the list.

amplification0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

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Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce amplification?

US /ˌæmplɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/

Amplification has 5 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)-Vealhurl-amplification.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with amplification?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as amplification from its last stressed vowel (/eɪʃən/):

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 amplification

amplifications plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does amplification mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

1
The act, or result of amplifying, enlarging, extending or adding.
2
The act, or result of independently increasing some quantity, especially voltage, power or current.
3
Gain.
4
The using of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for isolating and exponentially amplifying a fragment or sequence of DNA.
5
A procedure used in the nomenclature of complex organic compounds in which the superatoms of a basic structure (a phane) are replaced by cyclic structures (amplificants).
6
A translation technique that involves adding content that is not present in the source text to the target text, usually to improve the fluency of the translation.