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contiguous

con·tig·u·ous/kənˈtɪɡ.ju.əs/adjective

contiguous is spelled C-O-N-T-I-G-U-O-U-S: 10 letters and 4 syllables (con·tig·u·ous). It appears 1.5 times per million words in written English, the 23,253rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, contiguous means “Connected; touching; abutting” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in contiguous?

Letters10: C-O-N-T-I-G-U-O-U-S
Syllables4: con·tig·u·ous
In writing1.5 times per million words; the 23,253rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is contiguous?

Contiguous appears 1.5 times per million words in written English, the 23,253rd 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 contiguous?

  • US /kənˈtɪɡ.ju.əs/
  • Australia /kənˈtɪɡ.jʉ.əs/

Contiguous has 4 syllables, split con·tig·u·ous in writing.

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

What rhymes with contiguous?

One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as contiguous from its last stressed vowel (/ɪɡjuəs/):

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 contiguous mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Connected; touching; abutting.

  2. 2

    Adjacent; neighboring.

  3. 3

    Connecting without a break.

    the forty-eight contiguous states

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

Contiguous in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchcontigu (connected, touching, abutting), voisin, adjacent (adjacent, neighboring), attenant (connecting without a break)
Germanangrenzend, zusammen, verbunden, durchgehend, nebeneinanderliegend (connected, touching, abutting)
Portuguesecontíguo (connected, touching, abutting)
Spanishcontiguo (connected, touching, abutting), vecino, cercano, adyacente (adjacent, neighboring), adosado (connecting without a break)

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 contiguous come from?

From Latin contiguus (“touching”) + -ous, from contingere (“to touch”); see contingent, contact, contagion.

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

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