edition
/ɪˈdɪʃ(ə)n/noun
edition is spelled E-D-I-T-I-O-N. The wrong spelling people search most is edtion: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 169 of all searches for the word. Edition is a noun meaning “A written work edited and published, as by a certain editor or in a certain manner, or at a certain time”. The plural of edition is editions.
How many letters and syllables are in edition?
| Letters | 7: E-D-I-T-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 63 times per million words; the 1,668th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, edtion, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Pairs people 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); 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 edition?
Edition is spelled E-D-I-T-I-O-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 169 of the searches for edition 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 edition?
Edition appears 63 times per million words in written English, the 1,668th 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 edition?
- US /ɪˈdɪʃ(ə)n/
- /ˈe.ɖɪ.ʃən/
Edition 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-edition.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with edition
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with edition?
9 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as edition from its last stressed vowel (/ɪʃn/):
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 edition
- editions plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does edition mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A written work edited and published, as by a certain editor or in a certain manner, or at a certain time.
She wanted a copy of the Clericotes edition, but had to settle for the 1921 edition. She had never liked abridged editions.
- 2
The whole number of copies of a work printed and published at one time.
The first edition was soon sold.
- 3
An instance of the first or second sense.
What he had found was a particularly valuable first edition.
- 4
A particular instance of an event.
The 2014 edition of the Tour de France started in Leeds, Yorkshire.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate edition?
Wiktionary records 3 abbreviations of edition: ed., edit., edn..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Edition in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
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 edition come from?
From French édition, from Latin ēditiō, from ēdere (“to publish”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).