information
in·for·ma·tion/ˌɪn.fɚˈmeɪ.ʃn̩/noun
information is spelled I-N-F-O-R-M-A-T-I-O-N, 4 syllables: in·for·ma·tion. The wrong spelling people search most is informacion: about 210 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 49 of all searches for the word. Information is a noun meaning “Something that provides a definitive characterization or description of the nature and attributes of a…”. The plural of information is informations.
How many letters and syllables are in information?
| Letters | 11: I-N-F-O-R-M-A-T-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4: in·for·ma·tion |
| In writing | 269 times per million words; the 356th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 4; the most searched, informacion, about 210 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 information?
Information is spelled I-N-F-O-R-M-A-T-I-O-N. 4 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 30 of the searches for information 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 information?
Information appears 269 times per million words in written English, the 356th 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 information?
- UK /ˌɪn.fəˈmeɪ.ʃn̩/
- US /ˌɪn.fɚˈmeɪ.ʃn̩/
- Australia /ˌɪn.fəˈmæɪ.ʃən/
Information has 4 syllables, split in·for·ma·tion in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-information.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with information?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as information from its last stressed vowel (/eɪʃn/):
- formation
- preparation
- presentation
- relation
- identification
- observation
- variation
- obligation
- simulation
- notification
- calculation
- reconciliation
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 information
- informations plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does information mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Something that provides a definitive characterization or description of the nature and attributes of a specified entity.
- 2
Things that are or can be known about a given topic; communicable knowledge of something.
I need some more information about this issue.
- 3
The act of informing or imparting knowledge; notification.
For your information, I did this because I wanted to.
- 4
A statement of criminal activity brought before a judge or magistrate; in the UK, used to inform a magistrate of an offence and request a warrant; in the US, an accusation brought before a judge without a grand jury indictment.
- 5
obsoleteThe act of informing against someone, passing on incriminating knowledge; accusation.
- 6
archaicThe systematic imparting of knowledge; education, training.
- 7
archaicThe creation of form; the imparting of a given quality or characteristic; forming, animation.
- 8
The meaning that a human assigns to data by means of the known conventions used in its representation.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate information?
Wiktionary records 2 abbreviations of information: IEC, Info..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Information in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense communicable knowledge:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | renseignement, informations, information |
| German | Information, Auskunft |
| Portuguese | informação |
| Spanish | información |
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 information come from?
From Middle English enformacioun, informacioun, borrowed from Anglo-Norman informacioun, enformation, Old French information, from Latin īnfōrmātiō (“formation, conception; education”), from the participle stem of īnformāre (“to inform”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).