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constitution

con·sti·tu·tion/ˌkɑn.stɪˈtu.ʃ(ə)n/noun

constitution is spelled C-O-N-S-T-I-T-U-T-I-O-N, 4 syllables: con·sti·tu·tion. The wrong spelling people search most is consitution: about 290 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 43 of all searches for the word. Constitution is a noun meaning “The act, or process of setting something up, or establishing something; the composition or structure of such…”. The plural of constitution is constitutions.

How many letters and syllables are in constitution?

Letters12: C-O-N-S-T-I-T-U-T-I-O-N
Syllables4: con·sti·tu·tion
In writing36 times per million words; the 2,669th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched3; the most searched, consitution, about 290 Bing searches a month (all of them)
Rhymes with

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How do you spell constitution?

Constitution is spelled C-O-N-S-T-I-T-U-T-I-O-N. 3 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 24 of the searches for constitution in either form.

constitutionthe right spelling12,290 searches a month
consitutiona missing t290 searches a month
constituiona missing t210 searches a month
costitutiona missing n30 searches a month

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 constitution?

Constitution appears 36 times per million words in written English, the 2,669th 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 constitution?

  • UK /ˌkɒn.stɪˈtjuː.ʃ(ə)n/
  • UK /-ˈtʃuː-/
  • US /ˌkɑn.stɪˈtu.ʃ(ə)n/

Constitution has 4 syllables, split con·sti·tu·tion in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-constitution.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with constitution?

5 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as constitution from its last stressed vowel (/uʃn/):

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 constitution

  • constitutions plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does constitution mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    The act, or process of setting something up, or establishing something; the composition or structure of such a thing; its makeup.

  2. 2

    The formal or informal system of primary principles and laws that regulates a government or other institutions.

  3. 3

    A legal document describing such a formal system.

  4. 4

    A document issued by a religious authority serving to promulgate some particular church laws or doctrines.

  5. 5

    A person's physical makeup or temperament, especially in respect of robustness.

    He has a strong constitution, so he should make a quick recovery from the illness.

  6. 6

    datedThe general health of a person.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you abbreviate constitution?

Wiktionary records one abbreviation of constitution: const..

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Constitution in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchconstitution (act or process of setting something up, or…)
GermanVerfassen, Verfassung (act or process of setting something up, or…), Konstitution, Grundgesetz (formal or informal system of primary principles…)
Portugueseconstituição (act or process of setting something up, or…)
Spanishconstitución (act or process of setting something up, or…), constituciones (formal or informal system of primary principles…)

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 constitution come from?

From Middle English constitucioun, constitucion (“edict, law, ordinance, regulation, rule, statute; body of laws or rules, or customs; body of fundamental principles; principle or rule (of science); creation”) from Old French constitucion (modern French constitution), a learned borrowing from Latin cōnstitūtiō, cōnstitūtiōnem (“character, constitution, disposition, nature; definition; point in dispute; order, regulation; arrangement, system”), from cōnstituō (“to establish, set up; to confirm; to decide, resolve”). Equivalent to constitute + -ion.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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