duration
/dəˈɹeɪ.ʃən/noun
duration is spelled D-U-R-A-T-I-O-N: 8 letters and 3 syllables. It appears 14 times per million words in written English, the 5,679th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, duration means “An amount of time or a particular time interval” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of duration is durations.
How many letters and syllables are in duration?
| Letters | 8: D-U-R-A-T-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 14 times per million words; the 5,679th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none 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 duration?
Duration appears 14 times per million words in written English, the 5,679th 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 duration?
- /dʒʊˈɹeɪ.ʃən/
- /djʊˈɹeɪ.ʃən/
- US /dəˈɹeɪ.ʃən/
Duration 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-duration.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Samuel_Muldoon_(Muldoonsamuel55)-duration.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with duration?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as duration from its last stressed vowel (/eɪʃən/):
- situation
- association
- population
- administration
- operation
- organization
- application
- location
- generation
- foundation
- conversation
- investigation
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 duration
- durations plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does duration mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An amount of time or a particular time interval.
The duration of the flight will be about 2 hours 45 minutes.
- 2
The time taken for the current situation to end, especially the current war.
Rationing will last at least for the duration.
- 3
A measure of the sensitivity of the price of a financial asset to changes in interest rates, computed for a simple bond as a weighted average of the maturities of the interest and principal payments associated with it.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate duration?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of duration: durn.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Duration in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense amount of time:
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 duration come from?
From Middle English duracioun, from late Old French duracion, from Medieval Latin dūrātiō.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).