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exhibition

/ɛksɪˈbɪʃən/noun, verb

exhibition is spelled E-X-H-I-B-I-T-I-O-N. The wrong spelling people search most is exibition: about 60 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 28 of all searches for the word. Exhibition is a noun meaning “An instance of exhibiting, or something exhibited”. The plural of exhibition is exhibitions.

How many letters and syllables are in exhibition?

Letters10: E-X-H-I-B-I-T-I-O-N
Syllables4 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing23 times per million words; the 3,814th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched2; the most searched, exibition, about 60 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 exhibition?

Exhibition is spelled E-X-H-I-B-I-T-I-O-N. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 24 of the searches for exhibition in either form.

exhibitionthe right spelling1,620 searches a month
exibitiona missing h60 searches a month
exhibtiona missing i10 searches a month

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 exhibition?

Exhibition appears 23 times per million words in written English, the 3,814th 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 exhibition?

  • /ɛksɪˈbɪʃən/

Exhibition has 4 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-exhibition.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-exhibition.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with exhibition

Also written: ex.

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

Forms of exhibition

  • exhibitions plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • exhibitioning participle, present
  • exhibitioned participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does exhibition mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    An instance of exhibiting, or something exhibited.

  2. 2

    A large-scale public showing of objects or products.

    There was an art exhibition on in the town hall.

  3. 3

    A public display, intentional or otherwise, generally characterised as negative.

    a shameful exhibition

  4. 4

    A demonstration of personal skill or feelings.

  5. 5

    UKA financial award or prize given to a student (who becomes an exhibitioner) by a school or university, usually on the basis of academic merit.

  6. 6

    A game which does not impact the standings for any major cup or competition.

verb

  1. 1

    To participate in sexual exhibitionism.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you abbreviate exhibition?

Wiktionary records 3 abbreviations of exhibition: ex, exh, exhbn.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Exhibition in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
GermanAusstellung (instance of exhibiting)
Portugueseexibição, exposição (instance of exhibiting), mostra (large scale public showing of objects or…), bolsa de estudos (financial award to a student)
Spanishexhibición (instance of exhibiting), exposición (large scale public showing of objects or…), beca (financial award to a student)
Frenchexposition (large scale public showing of objects or…)

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 exhibition come from?

From Old French exhibicion. Equivalent to exhibit + -ion.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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