connection
con·nec·tion/kəˈnɛkʃ(ə)n/noun
connection is spelled C-O-N-N-E-C-T-I-O-N, 3 syllables: con·nec·tion. The wrong spelling people search most is conection: about 240 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 63 of all searches for the word. Connection is a noun meaning “The act of connecting”. The plural of connection is connections.
How many letters and syllables are in connection?
| Letters | 10: C-O-N-N-E-C-T-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: con·nec·tion |
| In writing | 58 times per million words; the 1,793rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, conection, about 240 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 connection?
Connection is spelled C-O-N-N-E-C-T-I-O-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 63 of the searches for connection 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 connection?
Connection appears 58 times per million words in written English, the 1,793rd 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 connection?
- /kəˈnɛkʃ(ə)n/
Connection has 3 syllables, split con·nec·tion in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-connection.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of connection
- connections plural
- connex.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does connection mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The act of connecting.
- 2
Coherence; lack of disjointedness.
- 3
Sexual intercourse.
- 4
The point at which two or more things are connected.
the leak formed at the connection of the pipe and the boiler
- 5
A transfer from one transportation vehicle to another in scheduled transportation service.
The bus was late so he missed his connection at Penn Station and had to wait six hours for the next train.
- 6
A physical link between two things or places.
the isthmus of Panama is the connection between North and South America
- 7
An established communications or transportation link.
computers linked by a network connection
- 8
A causal relationship between two phenomena; cause and effect.
the connection between overeating and obesity
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Connection in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | connexion , liaison, lien, rapport , complicité |
| German | Verbindung, Verknüpfung , Anschluss |
| Portuguese | conexão, ligação , junção |
| Spanish | vinculación, conexión, trabazón, ligazón, ilación |
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.