construction
/kənˈstɹʌkʃən/noun
construction is spelled C-O-N-S-T-R-U-C-T-I-O-N. The wrong spelling people search most is contruction: about 230 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 56 of all searches for the word. Construction is a noun meaning “The process of constructing”. The plural of construction is constructions.
How many letters and syllables are in construction?
| Letters | 12: C-O-N-S-T-R-U-C-T-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 93 times per million words; the 1,144th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 4; the most searched, contruction, about 230 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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); 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 construction?
Construction is spelled C-O-N-S-T-R-U-C-T-I-O-N. 4 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 35 of the searches for construction 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 construction?
Construction appears 93 times per million words in written English, the 1,144th 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 construction?
- /kənˈstɹʌkʃən/
Construction has 3 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-construction.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of construction
- constructions plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does construction mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The process of constructing.
Construction is underway on the new bridge.
- 2
Anything that has been constructed.
The engineer marvelled at his construction.
- 3
The trade of building structures.
He had worked in construction all his life.
- 4
A building, model or some other structure.
The office was a construction of steel and glass.
- 5
A (usually non-representational) structure, such as a collage etc.
"Construction in string and clockwork" took first prize.
- 6
The manner in which something is built.
A thing of simple construction.
- 7
A group of words arranged to form a meaningful phrase.
- 8
The act or result of construing the meaning of something.
American conservatives tend to favor strict construction of the Constitution.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate construction?
Wiktionary records 5 abbreviations of construction: Constr., const., constr, constr., constrn..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Construction in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | construction |
| German | Bau, Bauarbeit , Bauwerk , Bauwesen |
| Portuguese | construção, edificação , edifício |
| Spanish | construcción, edificación, cimentación |
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 construction come from?
From Middle English construccioun, construction, from Old French construction, from Latin cōnstructiō, from cōnstruere. Morphologically construct + -ion.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).