immigration
im·mi·gra·tion/ˌɪmɪˈɡɹeɪʃən/noun
immigration is spelled I-M-M-I-G-R-A-T-I-O-N, 4 syllables: im·mi·gra·tion. The wrong spelling people search most is imigration: about 650 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 30 of all searches for the word. Immigration is a noun meaning “The act of immigrating; the passing or coming into a country of which one is not native born for the purpose…”. The plural of immigration is immigrations.
How many letters and syllables are in immigration?
| Letters | 11: I-M-M-I-G-R-A-T-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4: im·mi·gra·tion |
| In writing | 30 times per million words; the 3,161st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, imigration, about 650 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 immigration?
Immigration is spelled I-M-M-I-G-R-A-T-I-O-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 30 of the searches for immigration 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 immigration?
Immigration appears 30 times per million words in written English, the 3,161st 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 immigration?
- UK /ɪmɪˈɡɹeɪʃn/
- US /ˌɪmɪˈɡɹeɪʃən/
Immigration has 4 syllables, split im·mi·gra·tion in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-immigration.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with immigration?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as immigration 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 immigration
- immigrations plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does immigration mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The act of immigrating; the passing or coming into a country of which one is not native born for the purpose of permanent residence.
- 2
The process of going through immigration checks at a border checkpoint.
It took ages to get through immigration last time.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate immigration?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of immigration: CIQ.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Immigration in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense the act of immigrating:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | immigration |
| German | Einwanderung, Immigration |
| Portuguese | imigração |
| Spanish | inmigración |
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 immigration come from?
From immigrate + -ion.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).