consortium
con·sor·ti·um/kənˈsoɹ.ʃəm/noun
consortium is spelled C-O-N-S-O-R-T-I-U-M, 4 syllables: con·sor·ti·um. The wrong spelling people search most is consorcium: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 370 of all searches for the word. Consortium is a noun meaning “An association or combination of businesses, financial institutions, or investors, for the purpose of…”. The plural of consortium is consortia or consortiums.
How many letters and syllables are in consortium?
| Letters | 10: C-O-N-S-O-R-T-I-U-M |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4: con·sor·ti·um |
| In writing | 4.8 times per million words; the 11,541st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, consorcium, about 10 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 consortium?
Consortium is spelled C-O-N-S-O-R-T-I-U-M. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 376 of the searches for consortium 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 consortium?
Consortium appears 4.8 times per million words in written English, the 11,541st 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 consortium?
- UK /kənˈsɔː.ti.əm/
- UK /kənˈsɔː.ʃəm/
- US /kənˈsoɹ.ʃəm/
Consortium has 4 syllables, split con·sor·ti·um in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-consortium.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of consortium
- consortia plural
- consortiums plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does consortium mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An association or combination of businesses, financial institutions, or investors, for the purpose of engaging in a joint venture.
- 2
A similar arrangement among non-commercial institutions or organizations.
- 3
An association or society.
- 4
The right of a spouse to all the normal relationships with his or her mate.
- 5
A group of symbiotic microbes.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Consortium in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | consortium |
| German | Konsortium, Kooperation , Interessenverband, Interessengemeinschaft, Arbeitsgemeinschaft , Bund |
| Portuguese | consórcio , associação |
| Spanish | consorcio , asociación |
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 consortium come from?
Learned borrowing from Latin cōnsortium.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).