division
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "division", 8-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Hunspell error dictionaries, and usage frequency ranked against the top 100,000 English words in the Wordfreq corpus. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "division" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "division" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
division is aEnglishnoun. It means: The act or process of dividing anything. Pronounced /dɪˈvɪʒn̩/. It ranks #1,451 in English word frequency. Often confused with divisive and divisions.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | division |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /dɪˈvɪʒn̩/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #1,451 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for division is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /dɪˈvɪʒn̩/. Corpus data places it at rank #1,451 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 16 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for division, with forms such as "ddivision", "diivsion", and "diviison". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "divisive", "divisions", "divisional", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: PIE word *dwóh₁ From Middle English divisioun, from Old French division, from Latin dīvīsiō, dīvīsiōnem, noun of process form from perfect passive participle dīvīsus (“divided”), from dīvidō (“divide”). Doublet of divisio. Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is division, spelled D-I-V-I-S-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1The act or process of dividing anything.
- 2Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division.
- 3The process of dividing a number by another.
- 4A calculation that involves this process.
- 5A formation, usually made up of two or three brigades.
- 6A usually high-level section of a large company or conglomerate.
- 7A rank below kingdom and above class, particularly used of plants or fungi, also (particularly of animals) called a phylum; a taxon at that rank.
- 8An optional rank subordinate to the infraclass and superordinate to the legion and cohort; a taxon at that rank.
- 9A disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument.
- 10A method by which a legislature is separated into groups in order to take a better estimate of vote than a voice vote.
- 11A florid instrumental variation of a melody in the 17th and 18th centuries, originally conceived as the dividing of each of a succession of long notes into several short ones.
- 12A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied.
- 13A concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of the total debt.
- 14Any of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code.
- 15A lesson; a class.
- 16A parliamentary constituency.
Etymology
PIE word *dwóh₁ From Middle English divisioun, from Old French division, from Latin dīvīsiō, dīvīsiōnem, noun of process form from perfect passive participle dīvīsus (“divided”), from dīvidō (“divide”). Doublet of divisio.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddivision,diivsion,diviison,divisino,divisionn,divisoin,divission,divition,divsiion,divvision,dviision,idvision
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Relative frequency of common misspelling types for division
Misspelling Variants of "division"
Frequency rank: #1,451 in English
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