collection
col·lec·tion/kəˈlɛkʃən/noun
collection is spelled C-O-L-L-E-C-T-I-O-N, 3 syllables: col·lec·tion. The wrong spelling people search most is colection: about 80 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 1,000 of all searches for the word. Collection is a noun meaning “A set of items or amount of material procured, gathered or presented together”. The plural of collection is collections.
How many letters and syllables are in collection?
| Letters | 10: C-O-L-L-E-C-T-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: col·lec·tion |
| In writing | 91 times per million words; the 1,167th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, colection, about 80 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 collection?
Collection is spelled C-O-L-L-E-C-T-I-O-N. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 801 of the searches for collection 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 collection?
Collection appears 91 times per million words in written English, the 1,167th 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 collection?
- /kəˈlɛkʃən/
Collection has 3 syllables, split col·lec·tion in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-collection.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of collection
- collections plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does collection mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A set of items or amount of material procured, gathered or presented together.
The attic contains a remarkable collection of antiques, oddities, and random junk.
- 2
A set of pitch classes used by a composer.
- 3
The activity of collecting.
Collection of trash will occur every Thursday.
- 4
A set of sets; used because such a thing is in general too large to comply with the formal definition of a set.
- 5
A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for donations.
- 6
Debt collection.
- 7
obsoleteThe act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred.
- 8
UKThe jurisdiction of a collector of excise.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate collection?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of collection: colln..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Collection in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | collection , ramassage, collecte , quête |
| German | Sammlung, Kollektion , Sammeln , Menge |
| Portuguese | coleção , coleta, recolha, recolhimento |
| Spanish | colección , recogida, recolección, recogimiento , conjunto |
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 collection come from?
From Middle English colleccioun, collection, from Old French collection, from Latin collēctiō, collēctiōnem, from collēctus, from colligō (“collect together”), composed of con- + legō (“bring together, gather, collect”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (“to gather, collect”). Equivalent to collect + -ion.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).