liaison
li·ai·son/liˈeɪˌzɒ̃/noun, verb
liaison is spelled L-I-A-I-S-O-N, 3 syllables: li·ai·son. The wrong spelling people search most is liason: about 3,810 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 3 in 10 of all searches for the word. Liaison is a noun meaning “A thickening for sauces, typically based on egg yolks”. The plural of liaison is liaisons.
How many letters and syllables are in liaison?
| Letters | 7: L-I-A-I-S-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: li·ai·son |
| In writing | 3.8 times per million words; the 13,321st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, liason, about 3,810 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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).
How do you spell liaison?
Liaison is spelled L-I-A-I-S-O-N. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 4 in 10 of the searches for liaison 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 liaison?
Liaison appears 3.8 times per million words in written English, the 13,321st 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 liaison?
- UK /liˈeɪˌzɒ̃/
- UK /-ˌzɒn/
- UK /-z(ə)n/
Liaison has 3 syllables, split li·ai·son in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-liaison.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of liaison
- liaisons plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- liaisoning participle, present
- liaisoned participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does liaison mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A thickening for sauces, typically based on egg yolks.
- 2
Communication between two parties or groups.
- 3
Cooperation, working together.
- 4
A relayer of information between two forces in an army or during war.
- 5
Any person who relays information between two groups or organizations.
As a community liaison, I work to make sure the general public knows about our organization's work.
- 6
A tryst; a romantic meeting.
- 7
An illicit sexual relationship or affair.
- 8
Fusion of two consecutive words and the manner in which this occurs.
verb
- 1
proscribedSynonym of liaise.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Liaison in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | liaison |
| Portuguese | ligação , cooperação |
| German | Zusammenarbeit, Verbindung , Liaison , Liebschaft, (außereheliche) Affäre |
| Spanish | aventura |
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 liaison come from?
Borrowed from French liaison (“binding”), from Latin ligātiō (stem ligātiōn-; whence the English doublet ligation), derived from ligō (“to bind”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyǵ- (“to bind”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).