integration
/ˌɪn.təˈɡɹeɪ.ʃən/noun
integration is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-A-T-I-O-N. The wrong spelling people search most is intergration: about 550 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Integration is a noun meaning “The act or process of making whole or entire”. The plural of integration is integrations.
How many letters and syllables are in integration?
| Letters | 11: I-N-T-E-G-R-A-T-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 17 times per million words; the 4,934th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, intergration, about 550 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell integration?
Integration is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-A-T-I-O-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for integration 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 integration?
Integration appears 17 times per million words in written English, the 4,934th 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 integration?
- UK /ˌɪn.tɪˈɡɹeɪ.ʃən/
- US /ˌɪn.təˈɡɹeɪ.ʃən/
- Australia /ˌɪn.təˈɡɹæɪ.ʃən/
Integration 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-integration.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with integration
Also written: racial integration.
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with integration?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as integration 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 integration
- integrations plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does integration mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The act or process of making whole or entire.
- 2
The process of combining with compatible elements in order to incorporate them.
- 3
The process of fitting into a community, notably applied to minorities.
integration into the city
- 4
USEllipsis of racial integration.
- 5
The operation of finding the integral of a function.
- 6
In evolution, the process by which the manifold is compacted into the relatively simple and permanent; supposed to alternate with differentiation as an agent in species' development.
- 7
The development of a system that brings together several subsystems so that they communicate and work together.
Our AcmePay integration allows the accounting ledger to receive details of customer payments automatically.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Integration in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense act or process of making whole or entire:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | intégration |
| German | Integration |
| Portuguese | integração |
| Spanish | integración |
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 integration come from?
From French intégration, from Latin integratio. Morphologically integrate + -ion.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).