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importation

noun

importation is spelled I-M-P-O-R-T-A-T-I-O-N: 11 letters and 4 syllables. It appears 1.1 times per million words in written English, the 27,150th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, importation means “The act or an instance of importing” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of importation is importations.

How many letters and syllables are in importation?

Letters11: I-M-P-O-R-T-A-T-I-O-N
Syllables4 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing1.1 times per million words; the 27,150th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is importation?

Importation appears 1.1 times per million words in written English, the 27,150th 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 importation?

    Importation 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).

    Forms of importation

    • importations plural

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

    What does importation mean?

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

    noun

    1. 1

      The act or an instance of importing.

    2. 2

      The act or an instance of carrying or conveying, especially into some system, place, area or country.

    3. 3

      That which is imported; commodities or wares introduced into a country from abroad.

    4. 4

      The use of a term which consists of formally foreign elements.

    5. 5

      The logical law (P→(Q→R))⇒((P∧Q)→R).

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

    How do you abbreviate importation?

    Wiktionary records one abbreviation of importation: Imp..

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

    Importation in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

    LanguageWords
    Frenchimportation (the act or an instance of carrying or…)
    Portugueseimportação (the act or an instance of carrying or…)
    Spanishimportación (the act or an instance of carrying or…)
    Germanlexikalische Entlehnung, lexikalischer Import (A term consisting of formally foreign elements)

    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 importation come from?

    From import + -ation.

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

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