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completion

com·ple·tion/kəmˈpli.ʃən/noun

completion is spelled C-O-M-P-L-E-T-I-O-N, 3 syllables: com·ple·tion. The wrong spelling people search most is completetion: about 100 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026). Completion is a noun meaning “The act or state of being or making something complete; conclusion, accomplishment”. The plural of completion is completions or μ-completions.

How many letters and syllables are in completion?

Letters10: C-O-M-P-L-E-T-I-O-N
Syllables3: com·ple·tion
In writing17 times per million words; the 4,934th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched2; the most searched, completetion, about 100 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 completion?

Completion is spelled C-O-M-P-L-E-T-I-O-N. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure.

completionthe right spelling
completetionan extra e, an extra t100 searches a month
competiona missing lfound in writing, not measured in search

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 completion?

Completion appears 17 times per million words in written English, the 4,934th 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 completion?

  • UK /kəmˈpliː.ʃən/
  • US /kəmˈpli.ʃən/

Completion has 3 syllables, split com·ple·tion in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-completion.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with completion?

7 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as completion from its last stressed vowel (/iʃən/):

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 completion

  • completions plural
  • μ-completions plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does completion mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    The act or state of being or making something complete; conclusion, accomplishment.

    The fundraising campaign was successfully stewarded to completion on time.

  2. 2

    The conclusion of an act of conveyancing concerning the sale of a property.

  3. 3

    A forward pass that is successfully caught by the intended receiver.

  4. 4

    The act of making a metric space complete by adding points.

  5. 5

    The space resulting from such an act.

  6. 6

    Synonym of autocomplete.

    tab completion

  7. 7

    Orgasm.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Completion in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchachèvement (making complete; conclusion), exécution (law: conclusion of an act of conveyancing)
GermanFertigstellung, Vervollständigung, Vollendung (making complete; conclusion)
Portuguesecompletamento, completação, conclusão, completude (making complete; conclusion)
Spanishcompleción, completación (making complete; conclusion)

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 completion come from?

Learned borrowing from Latin completio. By surface analysis, complete + -tion.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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