excursion
ex·cur·sion/ɛkˈskɝ.ʒən/noun, verb
excursion is spelled E-X-C-U-R-S-I-O-N, 3 syllables: ex·cur·sion. The wrong spelling people search most is excusion: about 70 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 63 of all searches for the word. Excursion is a noun meaning “A brief recreational trip; a journey out of the usual way”. The plural of excursion is excursions.
How many letters and syllables are in excursion?
| Letters | 9: E-X-C-U-R-S-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: ex·cur·sion |
| In writing | 2.1 times per million words; the 18,811th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, excusion, about 70 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 excursion?
Excursion is spelled E-X-C-U-R-S-I-O-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 63 of the searches for excursion 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 excursion?
Excursion appears 2.1 times per million words in written English, the 18,811th 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 excursion?
- UK /ɪkˈskɜː.ʃən/
- US /ɛkˈskɝ.ʒən/
- Australia /ekˈskɜː.ʃən/
Excursion has 3 syllables, split ex·cur·sion in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-excursion.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with excursion?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as excursion from its last stressed vowel (/ɜɹʒən/):
- version
- conversion
- Persian
- diversion
- immersion
- coercion
- aversion
- dispersion
- subversion
- perversion
- emersion
- retroversion
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 excursion
- excursions plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- excursioning participle, present
- excursioned participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does excursion mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A brief recreational trip; a journey out of the usual way.
While driving home I took an excursion and saw some deer.
- 2
AustraliaA field trip.
- 3
A wandering from the main subject: a digression.
- 4
An occurrence where an aircraft runs off the end or side of a runway or taxiway, usually during takeoff, landing, or taxi.
- 5
A deviation in pitch, for example in the syllables of enthusiastic speech.
- 6
Temporary deviation from a regular course or pattern
After an unsuccessful excursion into banking, I've returned to public life.
verb
- 1
To go on a recreational trip or excursion.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Excursion in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | excursion, randonnée |
| German | Ausflug, Exkursion , Abschweifung, Exkurs, Digression |
| Portuguese | excursão, passeio |
| Spanish | excursión |
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 excursion come from?
Borrowed from Latin excursiō (“a running out, an inroad, invasion, a setting out, beginning of a speech”), from excurrere (“to run out”), from ex (“out”) + currere (“to run”). By surface analysis, excurse + -ion. Compare excursus.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).