contraception
noun
contraception is a noun meaning “The use of a device or procedure to prevent conception as a result of sexual activity” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-O-N-T-R-A-C-E-P-T-I-O-N and has 4 syllables, and it appears 1.8 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of contraception is contraceptions.
What does contraception mean?
noun
- 1
The use of a device or procedure to prevent conception as a result of sexual activity.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce contraception?
- US
Contraception 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-contraception.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of contraception
- contraceptions plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is contraception?
Contraception appears 1.8 times per million words in written English, the 20,629th 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).
Contraception in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense use of a device or procedure:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | contraception |
| German | Empfängnisverhütung, Kontrazeption, Verhütung |
| Portuguese | contraceção |
| Spanish | anticoncepción, contraconcepción, contracepción, anticoncepcionismo |
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.