conjunction
con·junc·tion/kənˈd͡ʒʌŋk.ʃn̩/noun
conjunction is spelled C-O-N-J-U-N-C-T-I-O-N, 3 syllables: con·junc·tion. The wrong spelling people search most is conjuction: about 590 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Conjunction is a noun meaning “The act of joining, or condition of being joined”. The plural of conjunction is conjunctions.
How many letters and syllables are in conjunction?
| Letters | 11: C-O-N-J-U-N-C-T-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: con·junc·tion |
| In writing | 8.5 times per million words; the 7,910th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, conjuction, about 590 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 conjunction?
Conjunction is spelled C-O-N-J-U-N-C-T-I-O-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for conjunction 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 conjunction?
Conjunction appears 8.5 times per million words in written English, the 7,910th 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 conjunction?
- /kənˈd͡ʒʌŋk.ʃn̩/
Conjunction has 3 syllables, split con·junc·tion in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-conjunction.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of conjunction
- conjunctions plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does conjunction mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The act of joining, or condition of being joined.
- 2
A word used to join other words, phrases, or clauses together into sentences. (The specific conjunction used shows how the two joined parts are related semantically.)
- 3
Cooccurrence; coincidence.
- 4
The alignment of two bodies in the solar system such that they have the same longitude when seen from Earth.
- 5
An aspect in which planets are in close proximity to one another.
- 6
The proposition resulting from the combination of two or more propositions using the ∧ ( and ) operator.
- 7
A place where multiple things meet.
- 8
obsoleteSexual intercourse.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate conjunction?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of conjunction: conj.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Conjunction in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Zusammenhang , Konjunktion, Bindewort |
| Portuguese | conjunção |
| Spanish | conjunción |
| French | conjonction |
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 conjunction come from?
From Old French conjonction, from Latin coniūnctiō (“joining”), from coniungere (“to join”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).