division
/dɪˈvɪʒn̩/noun
division is spelled D-I-V-I-S-I-O-N. The wrong spelling people search most is divison: about 360 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 17 of all searches for the word. Division is a noun meaning “The act or process of dividing anything”. The plural of division is divisions.
How many letters and syllables are in division?
| Letters | 8: D-I-V-I-S-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 72 times per million words; the 1,457th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, divison, about 360 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 division?
Division is spelled D-I-V-I-S-I-O-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 17 of the searches for division 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 division?
Division appears 72 times per million words in written English, the 1,457th 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 division?
- /dɪˈvɪʒn̩/
- British /dɪˈvɪʒ(ə)n/
Division 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-division.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of division
- divisions plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does division mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The act or process of dividing anything.
- 2
Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division.
- 3
The process of dividing a number by another.
- 4
A calculation that involves this process.
I've got ten divisions to do for my homework.
- 5
A formation, usually made up of two or three brigades.
- 6
A usually high-level section of a large company or conglomerate.
- 7
A rank below kingdom and above class, particularly used of plants or fungi, also (particularly of animals) called a phylum; a taxon at that rank.
Magnolias belong to the division Magnoliophyta.
- 8
An optional rank subordinate to the infraclass and superordinate to the legion and cohort; a taxon at that rank.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate division?
Wiktionary records 2 abbreviations of division: Div., div..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Division in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | division , diminution |
| German | Teilung , Teil , Division , Abteilung |
| Portuguese | divisão , parte |
| Spanish | división , parte |
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 division come from?
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.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).