analysis
anal·y·sis/əˈnælɪsɪs/noun
analysis is spelled A-N-A-L-Y-S-I-S, 3 syllables: anal·y·sis. The wrong spelling people search most is analisis: about 470 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 18 of all searches for the word. Analysis is a noun meaning “Decomposition into components in order to study (a complex thing, concept, theory, etc.)”. The plural of analysis is analyses.
How many letters and syllables are in analysis?
| Letters | 8: A-N-A-L-Y-S-I-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: anal·y·sis |
| In writing | 81 times per million words; the 1,302nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 3; the most searched, analisis, about 470 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 analysis?
Analysis is spelled A-N-A-L-Y-S-I-S. 3 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 13 of the searches for analysis 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 analysis?
Analysis appears 81 times per million words in written English, the 1,302nd 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 analysis?
- UK /əˈnælɪsɪs/
- British /əˈnaləsɪs/
- British /əˈnalɪsɪs/
Analysis has 3 syllables, split anal·y·sis in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-analysis.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of analysis
- analyses plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does analysis mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Decomposition into components in order to study (a complex thing, concept, theory, etc.).
comparative analysis
- 2
The result of such a process.
- 3
A broad field of study in modern mathematics (often mentioned alongside algebra) which developed out of the calculus, concerned with the behavior of functions, sequences, series, limits, metric spaces, measures and more.
- 4
Proof by deduction from known truths.
- 5
The process of breaking down a substance into its constituent parts, or the result of this process.
- 6
The analytical study of melodies, harmonies, sequences, repetitions, variations, quotations, juxtapositions, and surprises.
- 7
Psychoanalysis.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Analysis in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
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 analysis come from?
From Medieval Latin analysis, from Ancient Greek ἀνάλυσις (análusis), from ἀναλύω (analúō, “to unravel, investigate”), from ἀνα- (ana-, “thoroughly”) + λύω (lúō, “to loosen”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).