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conversion

con·ver·sion/kənˈvɝʒən/noun

conversion is spelled C-O-N-V-E-R-S-I-O-N: 10 letters and 3 syllables (con·ver·sion). It appears 17 times per million words in written English, the 4,752nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, conversion means “The act of converting something or someone” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of conversion is conversions.

How many letters and syllables are in conversion?

Letters10: C-O-N-V-E-R-S-I-O-N
Syllables3: con·ver·sion
In writing17 times per million words; the 4,752nd 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 conversion?

Conversion appears 17 times per million words in written English, the 4,752nd 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 conversion?

  • UK /kənˈvɜːʃ(ə)n/
  • UK /-ʒ(ə)n/
  • US /kənˈvɝʒən/

Conversion has 3 syllables, split con·ver·sion in writing.

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

What rhymes with conversion?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as conversion from its last stressed vowel (/ɜɹʒən/):

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).

Forms of conversion

  • conversions plural

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

What does conversion mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The act of converting something or someone.

    His conversion to Christianity

  2. 2

    A software product converted from one platform to another.

  3. 3

    A chemical reaction wherein a substrate is transformed into a product.

  4. 4

    A free kick, after scoring a try, worth two points.

  5. 5

    An extra point (or two) scored by kicking a field goal or carrying the ball into the end zone after scoring a touchdown.

  6. 6

    An online advertising performance metric representing a visitor performing whatever the intended result of an ad is defined to be.

  7. 7

    Under the common law, the tort of the taking of someone's personal property with intent to permanently deprive them of it, or damaging property to the extent that the owner is deprived of the utility of that property, thus making the tortfeasor liable for the entire value of the property.

    the conversion of a horse

  8. 8

    Living space in a part of a building that was previously uninhabitable, or the process of constructing such living space.

    a loft conversion

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

Conversion in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchconversion (the act of having converted something or someone), dérivation impropre (linguistics: the process whereby a new word is…)
GermanUmwandlung (the act of having converted something or someone), Konversion, Nullableitung (linguistics: the process whereby a new word is…), Erhöhung (rugby: a free kick)
Portugueseconversão (the act of having converted something or someone)
Spanishconversión (the act of having converted something or someone), translación, transcategorización (linguistics: the process whereby a new word is…)

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 conversion come from?

From Middle English conversion, conversioun, borrowed from Anglo-Norman conversion, from Latin conversiō, from convertō.

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

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