condition
con·dit·ion/kənˈdɪʃ(ə)n/noun, verb
condition is spelled C-O-N-D-I-T-I-O-N, 3 syllables: con·dit·ion. The wrong spelling people search most is conditon: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 213 of all searches for the word. Condition is a noun meaning “A state or quality”. The plural of condition is conditions.
How many letters and syllables are in condition?
| Letters | 9: C-O-N-D-I-T-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: con·dit·ion |
| In writing | 72 times per million words; the 1,457th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 3; the most searched, conditon, about 20 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 condition?
Condition is spelled C-O-N-D-I-T-I-O-N. 3 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 85 of the searches for condition 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 condition?
Condition appears 72 times per million words in written English, the 1,457th 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 condition?
- US /kənˈdɪʃ(ə)n/
Condition has 3 syllables, split con·dit·ion in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-condition.wav, En-us-condition.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with condition?
9 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as condition from its last stressed vowel (/ɪʃn/):
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 condition
- conditions plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- conditioning participle, present
- conditioned participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does condition mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A state or quality.
National reports on the condition of public education are dismal.
- 2
A particular state of being.
Hypnosis is a peculiar condition of the nervous system.
- 3
obsoleteThe situation of a person or persons, particularly their social and/or economic class, rank.
A man of his condition has no place to make requests.
- 4
The health status of a medical patient.
My aunt couldn’t walk up the stairs in her condition.
- 5
A certain abnormal state of health; a malady or sickness.
- 6
A requirement or prerequisite.
Environmental protection is a condition for sustainability.
- 7
A logical clause or phrase that a conditional statement uses. The phrase can either be true or false.
- 8
A clause in a contract or agreement indicating that a certain contingency may modify the principal obligation in some way.
verb
- 1
To subject to the process of acclimation.
I became conditioned to the absence of seasons in San Diego.
- 2
To subject to different conditions, especially as an exercise.
They were conditioning their shins in their karate class.
- 3
To make dependent on a condition to be fulfilled; to make conditional on.
- 4
To place conditions or limitations upon.
- 5
To shape the behaviour of someone to do something.
The children were conditioned to speak up if they had any disagreements.
- 6
To treat, especially hair with hair conditioner.
- 7
To contract; to stipulate; to agree.
- 8
To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate condition?
Wiktionary records 2 abbreviations of condition: CCR, cond..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Condition in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | condition |
| German | Bedingung, Kondition , Voraussetzung , konditionieren |
| Portuguese | condição , condicionar, acondicionar |
| Spanish | condición , acondicionar , situación |
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 condition come from?
From Middle English condicioun, from Old French condicion (French condition), from Latin condicio. An unetymological change in spelling due to a confusion with conditio. Displaced native Old English hād (“state, condition”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).