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intentions

in·ten·tions/ɪnˈtɛnʃənz/noun

intentions is spelled I-N-T-E-N-T-I-O-N-S: 10 letters and 3 syllables (in·ten·tions). It appears 13 times per million words in written English, the 5,957th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, intentions means “plural of intention” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in intentions?

Letters10: I-N-T-E-N-T-I-O-N-S
Syllables3: in·ten·tions
In writing13 times per million words; the 5,957th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is intentions?

Intentions appears 13 times per million words in written English, the 5,957th 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 intentions?

  • /ɪnˈtɛnʃənz/

Intentions has 3 syllables, split in·ten·tions in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-intentions.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What does intentions mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    plural of intention (a form of intention)

  2. 2

    colloquialDesire to court, marry, date, woo or sleep with someone.

    He has intentions on your daughter.

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

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