collaboration
/kəˌlæbəˈɹeɪʃən/noun
collaboration is spelled C-O-L-L-A-B-O-R-A-T-I-O-N. The wrong spelling people search most is colaboration: about 230 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 46 of all searches for the word. Collaboration is a noun meaning “The act of collaborating”. The plural of collaboration is collaborations.
How many letters and syllables are in collaboration?
| Letters | 13: C-O-L-L-A-B-O-R-A-T-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 5 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 19 times per million words; the 4,444th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, colaboration, about 230 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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 collaboration?
Collaboration is spelled C-O-L-L-A-B-O-R-A-T-I-O-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 46 of the searches for collaboration 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 collaboration?
Collaboration appears 19 times per million words in written English, the 4,444th 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 collaboration?
- US /kəˌlæbəˈɹeɪʃən/
- US [kʰəˌlæbəˈɹeɪ̯ʃən]
- Australia /kəˌlæbəˈɹæɪʃən/
Collaboration 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-collaboration.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-collaboration.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with collaboration?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as collaboration from its last stressed vowel (/eɪʃən/):
- situation
- association
- population
- administration
- operation
- organization
- application
- location
- generation
- foundation
- conversation
- investigation
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 collaboration
- collaborations plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does collaboration mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The act of collaborating.
Collaboration can be a useful part of the creative process.
- 2
A production or creation made by collaborating.
The husband-and-wife artists will release their new collaboration in June this year.
- 3
Treasonous cooperation.
He has been charged with collaboration.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate collaboration?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of collaboration: collab..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Collaboration in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | collaboration |
| German | Kollektivarbeit, Zusammenarbeit, Kollaboration |
| Portuguese | colaboração , conspiração, formação de quadrilha |
| Spanish | colaboración |
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 collaboration come from?
Originated 1855–60 from French collaboration, from Late Latin collaboratus + -ion, from Latin con- (“with”) + labōrō (“work”). Morphologically collaborate + -ion.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).