contemporaneous
con·tem·por·a·ne·ous/kənˌtɛm.pəˈɹeɪ.ni.əs/adjective
contemporaneous is spelled C-O-N-T-E-M-P-O-R-A-N-E-O-U-S, 6 syllables: con·tem·por·a·ne·ous. The wrong spelling people search most is contemporaneus: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 167 of all searches for the word. Contemporaneous is an adjective meaning “Existing or created in the same period of time”.
How many letters and syllables are in contemporaneous?
| Letters | 15: C-O-N-T-E-M-P-O-R-A-N-E-O-U-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 6: con·tem·por·a·ne·ous |
| In writing | about once in every 1 million words; the 35,320th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, contemporaneus, about 20 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 contemporaneous?
Contemporaneous is spelled C-O-N-T-E-M-P-O-R-A-N-E-O-U-S. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 168 of the searches for contemporaneous 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 contemporaneous?
Contemporaneous appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 35,320th 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 contemporaneous?
- UK /kənˌtɛm.pəˈɹeɪ.ni.əs/
- UK /ˌkɒn.tɛm-/
- US /kənˌtɛm.pəˈɹeɪ.ni.əs/
Contemporaneous has 6 syllables, split con·tem·por·a·ne·ous in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-contemporaneous.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with contemporaneous?
5 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as contemporaneous from its last stressed vowel (/eɪniəs/):
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).
What does contemporaneous mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Existing or created in the same period of time.
Look in other contemporaneous works to see whether that idea was common then.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Contemporaneous in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense existing or created in the same period of time:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | contemporain |
| German | gleichzeitig, zeitgleich |
| Portuguese | contemporâneo |
| Spanish | contemporáneo, coetáneo |
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 contemporaneous come from?
From Latin contemporāneus (“contemporary”), from con- (“with”) + tempus (“time”) + -aneus (“of or pertaining to”) (compare Late Latin temporāneus (“opportune, timely”)).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).