association
as·so·ci·a·tion/əˌsoʊʃiˈeɪʃən/noun
association is spelled A-S-S-O-C-I-A-T-I-O-N, 5 syllables: as·so·ci·a·tion. The wrong spelling people search most is assocation: about 60 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 81 of all searches for the word. Association is a noun meaning “The act of associating”. The plural of association is associations.
How many letters and syllables are in association?
| Letters | 11: A-S-S-O-C-I-A-T-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 5: as·so·ci·a·tion |
| In writing | 102 times per million words; the 1,048th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, assocation, about 60 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell association?
Association is spelled A-S-S-O-C-I-A-T-I-O-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 82 of the searches for association 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 association?
Association appears 102 times per million words in written English, the 1,048th 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 association?
- UK /əˌsəʊʃiˈeɪʃn̩/
- UK /əˌsəʊsiˈeɪʃn̩/
- US /əˌsoʊʃiˈeɪʃən/
Association has 5 syllables, split as·so·ci·a·tion in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-association.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with association?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as association from its last stressed vowel (/eɪʃən/):
- situation
- population
- administration
- operation
- organization
- application
- location
- generation
- foundation
- conversation
- investigation
- communication
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 association
- associations plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does association mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The act of associating.
- 2
The state of being associated; a connection to or an affiliation with something.
- 3
Any relationship between two measured quantities that renders them statistically dependent (but not necessarily causal or a correlation).
- 4
A group of persons associated for a common purpose; an organization; society.
- 5
Relationship between classes of objects that allows one object instance to cause another to perform an action on its behalf.
- 6
A benevolent overseas Chinese organization of popular origin for overseas Chinese individuals with the same surname, geographical origin, location, trade or business.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate association?
Wiktionary records 6 abbreviations of association: Ass'n, Assoc, ass'n, assn, assoc, assoc..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Association in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Assoziation, Verknüpfung, Zuordnung, Vereinigung, Anschliessen, Zusammenschliessen |
| Portuguese | associação, associamento , organização |
| Spanish | asociación |
| French | association |
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.