continuous
/kənˈtɪn.juː.əs/adjective
continuous is spelled C-O-N-T-I-N-U-O-U-S. The wrong spelling people search most is continous: about 820 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026). Continuous is an adjective meaning “Without stopping; without a break, cessation, or interruption”.
How many letters and syllables are in continuous?
| Letters | 10: C-O-N-T-I-N-U-O-U-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 16 times per million words; the 5,025th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, continous, about 820 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Pairs people 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); 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 continuous?
Continuous is spelled C-O-N-T-I-N-U-O-U-S. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure.
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 continuous?
Continuous appears 16 times per million words in written English, the 5,025th 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 continuous?
- /kənˈtɪn.juː.əs/
- /-(j)ɪu̯.əs/
Continuous has 4 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-continuous.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with continuous
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What does continuous mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Without stopping; without a break, cessation, or interruption.
the continuous roar of a waterfall
- 2
Without intervening space; continued.
a continuous line of railroad
- 3
Not deviating or varying from uniformity; not interrupted; not joined or articulated.
- 4
Such that, for every x in the domain, for each small open interval D about f(x), there's an interval containing x whose image is in D.
- 5
Such that each open set in the target space has an open preimage (in the domain space, with respect to the given function).
Each continuous function from the real line to the rationals is constant, since the rationals are totally disconnected.
- 6
Expressing an ongoing action or state.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate continuous?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of continuous: cont.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Continuous in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense without break, cessation, or interruption in time:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | continu, continuel |
| German | kontinuierlich, stetig |
| Portuguese | contínuo |
| Spanish | continuo, contino |
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 continuous come from?
From Latin continuus, from contineō (“hold together”). Displaced native Old English singal.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).