join
/ˈd͡ʒɔɪn/verb, noun
join is spelled J-O-I-N: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 100 times per million words in written English, the 1,076th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, join means “To connect or combine into one; to put together” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in join?
| Letters | 4: J-O-I-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 |
| In writing | 100 times per million words; the 1,076th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none 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 join?
Join appears 100 times per million words in written English, the 1,076th 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 join?
- /ˈd͡ʒɔɪn/
Join has one syllable.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Naomi_Persephone_Amethyst_(NaomiAmethyst)-join.wav, En-us-join.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of join
- joins present, singular, he/she/it, plural
- joining participle, present
- joined past, participle, singular, he/she/it, plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does join mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
To connect or combine into one; to put together.
The plumber joined the two ends of the broken pipe.
- 2
To come together; to meet.
Parallel lines never join.
- 3
To enter into association or alliance, to unite in a common purpose.
- 4
To start working on or participating in a project.
He joined season 2 of the television show.
- 5
To come into the company of.
I will join you in watching the football game as soon as I have finished my work.
- 6
To become a member of.
Many children join a sports club.
- 7
To produce an intersection of data in two or more database tables.
By joining the Customer table on the Product table, we can show each customer's name alongside the products they have ordered.
- 8
To unite in marriage.
noun
- 1
An act of joining or the state of being joined; a junction or joining.
- 2
An intersection of piping or wiring; an interconnect.
- 3
An intersection of data in two or more database tables.
- 4
The act of joining something, such as a network.
- 5
The lowest upper bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∨.
- 6
The smallest linear space containing both of two given linear spaces.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Join in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | joindre , se joindre , jointure |
| German | verknüpfen, vereinigen, anschließen, verbinden , zusammenkommen, sich treffen |
| Portuguese | juntar, unir , juntar-se a , conexão , juntar-se , entrar em |
| Spanish | juntar, yuntar, unir, uñir, aunar, empalmar |
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 join come from?
From Middle English joinen, joynen, joignen, from Old French joindre, juindre, jungre, from Latin iungō (“join, yoke”, verb), from Proto-Indo-European *yewg- (“to join, unite”). Cognate with Old English iucian, iugian, ġeocian, ġyċċan (“to join; yoke”). More at yoke.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).