divination
/ˌdɪvɪˈneɪʃən/noun
divination is spelled D-I-V-I-N-A-T-I-O-N. The wrong spelling people search most is divinition: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 98 of all searches for the word. Divination is a noun meaning “The act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events”. The plural of divination is divinations.
How many letters and syllables are in divination?
| Letters | 10: D-I-V-I-N-A-T-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 1 million words; the 33,236th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, divinition, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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).
How do you spell divination?
Divination is spelled D-I-V-I-N-A-T-I-O-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 99 of the searches for divination 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 divination?
Divination appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 33,236th 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 divination?
- /ˌdɪvɪˈneɪʃən/
Divination 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-divination.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of divination
- divinations plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does divination mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events.
- 2
The apparent art of discovering secrets or the future by preternatural means.
- 3
An indication of what is to come in the future or what is secret; a prediction.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Divination in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense act of divining:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | divination |
| German | Wahrsagerei, Wahrsagen |
| Portuguese | adivinhação, divinação |
| Spanish | adivinación, divinación, videncia |
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 divination come from?
From Old French divination, from Latin divinatio.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).