conservation
/ˌkɑnsə(ɹ)ˈveɪʃən/noun
conservation is spelled C-O-N-S-E-R-V-A-T-I-O-N: 12 letters and 4 syllables. It appears 21 times per million words in written English, the 4,076th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, conservation means “The act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of conservation is conservations.
How many letters and syllables are in conservation?
| Letters | 12: C-O-N-S-E-R-V-A-T-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 21 times per million words; the 4,076th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is conservation?
Conservation appears 21 times per million words in written English, the 4,076th 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 conservation?
- /ˌkɑnsə(ɹ)ˈveɪʃən/
Conservation has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-conservation.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with conservation?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as conservation.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: conversation.
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 conservation
- conservations plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does conservation mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation.
- 2
Wise use of natural resources.
- 3
The discipline concerned with protection of biodiversity, the environment, and natural resources
- 4
Genes and associated characteristics of biological organisms that are unchanged by evolution, for example similar or identical nucleic acid sequences or proteins in different species descended from a common ancestor
- 5
The protection and care of cultural heritage, including artwork and architecture, as well as historical and archaeological artifacts
- 6
lack of change in a measurable property of an isolated physical system (conservation of energy, mass, momentum, electric charge, subatomic particles, and fundamental symmetries)
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Conservation in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | préservation , défense , conservation |
| German | Erhaltung, Konservierung, Bewahrung, Erhalt, Musealisierung , Naturschutz |
| Portuguese | conservação |
| Spanish | conservación, criamiento |
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 conservation come from?
From Old French. By surface analysis, conserve + -ation.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).