deletion
/dɪˈliʃən/noun
deletion is spelled D-E-L-E-T-I-O-N: 8 letters and 3 syllables. It appears 1.7 times per million words in written English, the 21,516th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, deletion means “An item that has been or will be deleted” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of deletion is deletions.
How many letters and syllables are in deletion?
| Letters | 8: D-E-L-E-T-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.7 times per million words; the 21,516th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is deletion?
Deletion appears 1.7 times per million words in written English, the 21,516th 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 deletion?
- UK /dɪˈliːʃən/
- US /dɪˈliʃən/
- Australia /dɪˈliːʃən/
Deletion 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-deletion.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Jjamesryan-deletion.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with deletion?
7 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as deletion from its last stressed vowel (/iʃən/):
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 deletion
- deletions plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does deletion mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An item that has been or will be deleted.
- 2
The act of deleting.
The file contained errors that required deletion.
- 3
A mutation in which a gene, or other section of DNA, is removed from a chromosome.
A genetic deletion caused the disorder.
- 4
An act of killing or murder.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate deletion?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of deletion: del..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Deletion in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | suppression , délétion, cassure chromosomique |
| German | Löschung , Deletion |
| Portuguese | exclusão, deleção, deletamento |
| Spanish | supresión, borrado, deleción, elisión, borradura, eliminación |
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 deletion come from?
From Latin dēlētiōnem (“destruction, effacement”), from the past-participle stem of dēlēre (“to blot out, destroy, efface”). Equivalent to delete + -ion.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).