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devotion

/dɪˈvoʊʃən/noun

devotion is spelled D-E-V-O-T-I-O-N: 8 letters and 3 syllables. It appears 5.4 times per million words in written English, the 10,680th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, devotion means “The act or state of devoting or being devoted; a feeling of being devoted (to something)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of devotion is devotions.

How many letters and syllables are in devotion?

Letters8: D-E-V-O-T-I-O-N
Syllables3 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing5.4 times per million words; the 10,680th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone 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 devotion?

Devotion appears 5.4 times per million words in written English, the 10,680th 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 devotion?

  • UK /dɪˈvəʊʃən/
  • US /dɪˈvoʊʃən/

Devotion 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: En-us-devotion.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with devotion?

8 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as devotion from its last stressed vowel (/oʊʃən/):

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 devotion

  • devotions plural

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

What does devotion mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The act or state of devoting or being devoted; a feeling of being devoted (to something).

    deep devotion

  2. 2

    Religious veneration, zeal, or piety.

    He showed great devotion to his religious practices.

  3. 3

    A prayer (often found in the plural).

  4. 4

    obsoleteReligious offerings; alms.

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

Devotion in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchdévotion (the act or state of devoting or being devoted), dévouement (feelings of strong or fervent affection…)
GermanHingebung, Hingabe, Zuneigung, Zuwendung, Ergebenheit, Aufopferung (the act or state of devoting or being devoted)
Portuguesedevoção (the act or state of devoting or being devoted), dedicação (feelings of strong or fervent affection…), fervor (religious veneration, zeal, or piety)
Spanishdevoción (the act or state of devoting or being devoted), dedicación (feelings of strong or fervent affection…), fervor (religious veneration, zeal, or piety), veneración (ecclesiastical: a prayer)

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 devotion come from?

From Old French devocion, from Latin dēvōtiō, from dēvōtum + -tio, from the supine of dēvoveō (“vow, devote”); equivalent to devote + -ion.

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

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