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construct

/ˈkɑn.stɹʌkt/noun, verb

construct is spelled C-O-N-S-T-R-U-C-T: 9 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 9.5 times per million words in written English, the 7,338th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, construct means “Something constructed from parts” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of construct is constructs.

How many letters and syllables are in construct?

Letters9: C-O-N-S-T-R-U-C-T
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing9.5 times per million words; the 7,338th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is construct?

Construct appears 9.5 times per million words in written English, the 7,338th 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 construct?

  • UK /ˈkɒn.stɹʌkt/
  • US /ˈkɑn.stɹʌkt/

As a verb (“To build or form (something) by assembling parts”): /kənˈstɹʌkt/.

Construct has 2 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: En-us-construct-noun.ogg, En-us-construct-verb.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of construct

  • constructs plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • constructing participle, present
  • constructed participle, past

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

What does construct mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Something constructed from parts.

    The artwork was a construct of wire and tubes.

  2. 2

    A concept or model.

    Bohr's theoretical construct of the atom was soon superseded by quantum mechanics.

  3. 3

    A segment of nucleic acid, created artificially, for transplantation into a target cell or tissue.

verb

  1. 1

    To build or form (something) by assembling parts.

    We constructed the radio from spares.

  2. 2

    To build (a sentence, an argument, etc.) by arranging words or ideas.

    A sentence may be constructed with a subject, verb and object.

  3. 3

    To draw (a geometric figure) by following precise specifications and using geometric tools and techniques.

    Construct a circle that touches each vertex of the given triangle.

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

Construct in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchconstruction (something constructed from parts), construire (build or form by assembling parts)
Portuguesemontagem (something constructed from parts), montar (build or form by assembling parts), constructo (concept or model), construção (segment of DNA created artificially), construir (build (a sentence or argument))
Spanishconstrucción (something constructed from parts), construir (build or form by assembling parts), constructo (concept or model)
Germanbauen, konstruieren (build or form by assembling parts)

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 construct come from?

Borrowed from Latin cōnstrūctus, from cōnstruō (“to heap together”), from com- (“together”) + struō (“to heap up, pile”). Doublet of construe.

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

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