dimension
/daɪˈmɛn.ʃən/noun, verb
dimension is spelled D-I-M-E-N-S-I-O-N. The wrong spelling people search most is dimention: about 250 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 20 of all searches for the word. Dimension is a noun meaning “A single aspect of a given thing”. The plural of dimension is dimensions.
How many letters and syllables are in dimension?
| Letters | 9: D-I-M-E-N-S-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 10 times per million words; the 6,884th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, dimention, about 250 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 dimension?
Dimension is spelled D-I-M-E-N-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 dimension 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 dimension?
Dimension appears 10 times per million words in written English, the 6,884th 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 dimension?
- UK /daɪˈmɛn.ʃən/
- UK [daɪˈmɛn.ʃn̩]
- UK /dɪˈmɛn.ʃən/
Dimension 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-dimension.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with dimension?
3 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as dimension from its last stressed vowel (/ɛnʃən/, British pronunciation):
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 dimension
- dimensions plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- dimensioning participle, present
- dimensioned participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does dimension mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A single aspect of a given thing.
This film can be enjoyed on many dimensions - the script is great, the acting is realistic, and the special effects will simply take you aback.
- 2
A measure of spatial extent in a particular direction, such as height, width or breadth, or depth.
- 3
A construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished.
- 4
The number of independent coordinates needed to specify uniquely the location of a point in a space; also, any of such independent coordinates.
- 5
The number of elements of any basis of a vector space.
- 6
One of the physical properties that are regarded as fundamental measures of a physical quantity, such as mass, length and time.
The dimension of velocity is length divided by time.
- 7
Any of the independent ranges of indices in a multidimensional array.
- 8
A universe or plane of existence.
a machine that lets you travel to a parallel dimension.
verb
- 1
To mark, cut or shape something to specified dimensions.
- 2
To specify the size of (an array or similar data structure); to allocate.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Dimension in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | dimension , dimensionner |
| German | dimensionieren , Dimension |
| Portuguese | dimensão |
| Spanish | dimensión |
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 dimension come from?
Derived from Latin dīmēnsiō.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).