communications
com·mu·ni·ca·tions/kəˌmju.nɪˈkeɪ.ʃənz/noun
communications is spelled C-O-M-M-U-N-I-C-A-T-I-O-N-S, 5 syllables: com·mu·ni·ca·tions. The wrong spelling people search most is commuications: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 294 of all searches for the word. Communications is a noun meaning “Telecommunications, the science and technology of communicating, especially by electronic means”.
How many letters and syllables are in communications?
| Letters | 14: C-O-M-M-U-N-I-C-A-T-I-O-N-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 5: com·mu·ni·ca·tions |
| In writing | 39 times per million words; the 2,523rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, commuications, about 10 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 communications?
Communications is spelled C-O-M-M-U-N-I-C-A-T-I-O-N-S. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 298 of the searches for communications 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 communications?
Communications appears 39 times per million words in written English, the 2,523rd 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 communications?
- UK /kəˌmjuː.nɪˈkeɪ.ʃənz/
- US /kəˌmju.nɪˈkeɪ.ʃənz/
- Australia /kəˌmjʉː.nɪˈkæɪ.ʃənz/
Communications has 5 syllables, split com·mu·ni·ca·tions in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-communications.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with communications?
2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as communications from its last stressed vowel (/eɪʃənz/):
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).
What does communications mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Telecommunications, the science and technology of communicating, especially by electronic means.
- 2
Organizational or corporate communication.
- 3
Systems for communicating (e.g. postal and telephone networks)
cell phones and other communications equipment
- 4
plural of communication
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate communications?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of communications: comms.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).