corrosion
/kəˈɹoʊʒən/noun
corrosion is spelled C-O-R-R-O-S-I-O-N. The wrong spelling people search most is corosion: about 100 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 20 of all searches for the word. Corrosion is a noun meaning “The act of corroding or the condition so produced”. The plural of corrosion is corrosions.
How many letters and syllables are in corrosion?
| Letters | 9: C-O-R-R-O-S-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 3.0 times per million words; the 15,368th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, corosion, about 100 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell corrosion?
Corrosion is spelled C-O-R-R-O-S-I-O-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 20 of the searches for corrosion in either form.
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 corrosion?
Corrosion appears 3.0 times per million words in written English, the 15,368th 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 corrosion?
- UK /kəˈɹəʊʒən/
- US /kəˈɹoʊʒən/
Corrosion has 3 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)-Vealhurl-corrosion.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with corrosion?
2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as corrosion from its last stressed vowel (/oʊʒən/):
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 corrosion
- corrosions plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does corrosion mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The act of corroding or the condition so produced.
- 2
A substance (such as rust) so formed.
- 3
Erosion by chemical action, especially oxidation.
- 4
The gradual destruction or undermining of something.
the corrosion of values
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Corrosion in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense The act of corroding:
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 corrosion come from?
From Middle English corrosioun, from Old French corrosion, or its source, Late Latin corrōsiōnem, accusative singular of corrōsiō (“gnawing away, corroding”), from Latin corrōdō (“gnaw away, corrode”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).