instruction
/ɪnˈstɹʌkʃən/noun
instruction is spelled I-N-S-T-R-U-C-T-I-O-N. The wrong spelling people search most is instuction: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 61 of all searches for the word. Instruction is a noun meaning “The act of instructing, teaching, or providing with information or knowledge”. The plural of instruction is instructions.
How many letters and syllables are in instruction?
| Letters | 11: I-N-S-T-R-U-C-T-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 14 times per million words; the 5,679th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, instuction, about 20 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 instruction?
Instruction is spelled I-N-S-T-R-U-C-T-I-O-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 61 of the searches for instruction 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 instruction?
Instruction appears 14 times per million words in written English, the 5,679th 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 instruction?
- /ɪnˈstɹʌkʃən/
Instruction has 3 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-instruction.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of instruction
- instructions plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does instruction mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The act of instructing, teaching, or providing with information or knowledge.
Students receive instruction in the arts and sciences.
- 2
An instance of the information or knowledge so furnished.
- 3
An order or command.
- 4
A set of directions provided by a manufacturer for the users of a product or service.
- 5
The directions given by a client to their lawyer in relation to a particular legal matter, which govern the purpose and scope of their work.
I cannot act until I have taken instructions from my client.
- 6
A single operation of a processor defined by an instruction set architecture.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate instruction?
Wiktionary records 3 abbreviations of instruction: I, insn, instrn..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Instruction in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | instruction |
| German | Unterricht , Anweisung , Assemblerbefehl |
| Portuguese | instrução |
| Spanish | instrucción |
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 instruction come from?
From Middle English instruccioun, from Old French instruccion, from Latin instructio; equivalent to instruct + -ion.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).