magazine
mag·a·zine/ˌmæɡəˈziːn/noun
magazine is spelled M-A-G-A-Z-I-N-E, 3 syllables: mag·a·zine. The wrong spelling people search most is magizine: about 100 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 103 of all searches for the word. Magazine is a noun meaning “A nonacademic, periodical publication which consists of articles by multiple writers on some broad topic or…”. The plural of magazine is magazines.
How many letters and syllables are in magazine?
| Letters | 8: M-A-G-A-Z-I-N-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: mag·a·zine |
| In writing | 55 times per million words; the 1,865th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, magizine, about 100 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 magazine?
Magazine is spelled M-A-G-A-Z-I-N-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 103 of the searches for magazine 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 magazine?
Magazine appears 55 times per million words in written English, the 1,865th 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 magazine?
- /ˌmæɡəˈziːn/
- [ˌmæɡəˈzɪi̯n]
- /ˈmæɡəˌziːn/
Magazine has 3 syllables, split mag·a·zine in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-magazine.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of magazine
- magazines plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does magazine mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A nonacademic, periodical publication which consists of articles by multiple writers on some broad topic or theme.
- 2
A radio or television show where each episode comprises a variety of features or segments, akin to the format of a print magazine.
- 3
An ammunition storehouse.
- 4
The portion of a warship where munitions are stored.
The cruiser blew up when a shell hit its magazine.
- 5
A chamber in or attachable to a firearm enabling multiple rounds of ammunition to be fed into the firearm.
- 6
A reservoir or supply chamber for a stove, battery, camera, typesetting machine, or other apparatus.
- 7
archaicA country or district especially rich in natural products.
- 8
archaicA city viewed as a marketing center.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate magazine?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of magazine: mag.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Magazine in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | magazine, revue , arsenal , magasin |
| German | Zeitschrift, Journal, Magazin, Illustrierte , Munitionslager |
| Portuguese | revista , paiol , cartucho |
| Spanish | revista, magacín, magazín, magasín, magazine , depósito |
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 magazine come from?
From Middle English magasyne, from Middle French magasin (“warehouse, store”), from Italian magazzino (“storehouse”), ultimately from Arabic مَخَازِن pl (maḵāzin), plural of مَخْزَن (maḵzan, “storeroom, storehouse”), noun of place from خَزَنَ (ḵazana, “to store, to stock, to lay up”). First attested in the 1580s.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).