communication
com·mu·ni·ca·tion/kəˌmju.nɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/noun
communication is spelled C-O-M-M-U-N-I-C-A-T-I-O-N, 5 syllables: com·mu·ni·ca·tion. The wrong spelling people search most is comunication: about 300 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 40 of all searches for the word. Communication is a noun meaning “The act or fact of communicating anything; transmission”. The plural of communication is communications.
How many letters and syllables are in communication?
| Letters | 13: C-O-M-M-U-N-I-C-A-T-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 5: com·mu·ni·ca·tion |
| In writing | 48 times per million words; the 2,113th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 4; the most searched, comunication, about 300 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 communication?
Communication is spelled C-O-M-M-U-N-I-C-A-T-I-O-N. 4 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 32 of the searches for communication 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 communication?
Communication appears 48 times per million words in written English, the 2,113th 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 communication?
- UK /kəˌmjuː.nɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/
- US /kəˌmju.nɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/
- Australia /kəˌmjʉː.nɪˈkæɪ.ʃən/
Communication has 5 syllables, split com·mu·ni·ca·tion in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-communication.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with communication?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as communication 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 communication
- communications plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does communication mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The act or fact of communicating anything; transmission.
communication of smallpox
- 2
The concept or state of exchanging data or information between entities.
Some say that communication is a necessary prerequisite for sentience; others say that it is a result thereof.
- 3
A message; the essential data transferred in an act of communication.
Surveillance was accomplished by means of intercepting the spies' communications.
- 4
The body of all data transferred to one or both parties during an act of communication.
The subpoena required that the company document their communication with the plaintiff.
- 5
An instance of information transfer; a conversation or discourse.
The professors' communications consisted of lively discussions via email.
- 6
A passageway or opening between two locations; connection.
A round archway at the far end of the hallway provided communication to the main chamber.
- 7
A connection between two tissues, organs, or cavities.
...and here a free communication had been established between the aorta and the vena cava.
- 8
obsoleteAssociation; company.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate communication?
Wiktionary records 6 abbreviations of communication: CMT, Commc'n, com, comm, commo, comnctn.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Communication in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | communication , message |
| German | Kommunikation , Mitteilung , Informationsaustausch , Kommunikationsdaten |
| Portuguese | comunicação , comunicado |
| Spanish | comunicación , comunicado |
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 communication come from?
Inherited from Middle English comunicacioun, communicacion (“discussion, association”), from Old French communicacion, from Latin commūnicātiōnem, accusative singular of commūnicātiō (“imparting, communicating”), from commūnicō (“to share, to impart”). Morphologically communicate + -ion.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).