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correspondence

/ˌkoɹ.ɪˈspɑn.dəns/noun

correspondence is spelled C-O-R-R-E-S-P-O-N-D-E-N-C-E: 14 letters and 4 syllables. It appears 7.1 times per million words in written English, the 8,918th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, correspondence means “Reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially conversation between persons by means of letters” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of correspondence is correspondences.

How many letters and syllables are in correspondence?

Letters14: C-O-R-R-E-S-P-O-N-D-E-N-C-E
Syllables4 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing7.1 times per million words; the 8,918th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in 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).

How common is correspondence?

Correspondence appears 7.1 times per million words in written English, the 8,918th 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 correspondence?

  • UK /ˌkɒɹ.ɪˈspɒn.dəns/
  • UK /ˌkɒɹ.əˈspɒn.dəns/
  • US /ˌkoɹ.ɪˈspɑn.dəns/

Correspondence 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-correspondence.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of correspondence

  • correspondences plural

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

What does correspondence mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    obsoleteFriendly discussion.

  2. 2

    Reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially conversation between persons by means of letters.

  3. 3

    Newspaper or news stories.

  4. 4

    Postal or other written communications.

  5. 5

    Congruity or similarity between different things, people, etc

  6. 6

    An agreement of situations or objects with an expected outcome.

  7. 7

    A relation.

  8. 8

    A similarity between physical and spiritual things (e.g. light to wisdom, or warmth to love)

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

Correspondence in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchcorrespondance (reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially…), chronique (newspaper or news stories generally)
GermanBriefwechsel, Korrespondenz (reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially…), Übereinstimmung (agreement of situations or objects with an…)
Portuguesecorrespondência (reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially…), notícias (newspaper or news stories generally)
Spanishcorrespondencia, carteo (reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially…), noticias (newspaper or news stories generally)

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 correspondence come from?

From Middle English correspondence, from Latin correspondentia. By surface analysis, correspond + -ence.

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

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