connection
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "connection", 10-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Hunspell error dictionaries, and usage frequency ranked against the top 100,000 English words in the Wordfreq corpus. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "connection" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "connection" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
connection is aEnglishnoun. It means: The act of connecting. Pronounced /kəˈnɛkʃ(ə)n/. It ranks #1,788 in English word frequency. Often confused with connector and convention.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | connection |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kəˈnɛkʃ(ə)n/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #1,788 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for connection is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /kəˈnɛkʃ(ə)n/. Corpus data places it at rank #1,788 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for connection, with forms such as "cconnection", "cnonection", and "conection". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 14 confusable-pair relationships, "connector", "convention", "conviction", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English conneccioun, connexioun, conneccyon, conneccion, from Latin connexionem (nominative connexio (“a conclusion, binding together”)), from connectō, an alternative spelling of cōnectō (“to bind together”), from compound of co- (“together”) a… Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is connection, spelled C-O-N-N-E-C-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1The act of connecting.
- 2The point at which two or more things are connected.
- 3A feeling of understanding and ease of communication between two or more people.
- 4An established communications or transportation link.
- 5A transfer from one transportation vehicle to another in scheduled transportation service.
- 6A kinship relationship between people.
- 7A person related to oneself, through either family or business.
- 8A set of sets that contains the empty set, all one-element sets for any element that is included in any of the sets, and the union of any group of sets that are elements where the intersections of those sets is non-empty.
- 9Coherence; lack of disjointedness.
- 10A Methodist denomination as a whole, as opposed to its constituent churches, circuits, districts and conferences.
- 11Sexual intercourse.
- 12A drug dealer.
Etymology
From Middle English conneccioun, connexioun, conneccyon, conneccion, from Latin connexionem (nominative connexio (“a conclusion, binding together”)), from connectō, an alternative spelling of cōnectō (“to bind together”), from compound of co- (“together”) and nectō (“to bind”). In American English mid-18c., spelling shifted from connexion to connection (equivalent to connect + -ion), thus making connexion British dated and connection in international use.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cconnection,cnonection,conection,conenction,conncetion,connecction,conneciton,connecsion,connectino,connectionn,connectoin,connecttion,connetcion,ocnnection
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Relative frequency of common misspelling types for connection
Misspelling Variants of "connection"
Frequency rank: #1,788 in English
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