# mansion

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈmæn.ʃən/ · frequency rank #6,933

## Definitions
1. A large luxurious house or building, usually built for the wealthy.
2. A luxurious flat (apartment).
3. An apartment building.
4. A house provided for a clergyman; a manse.
5. A stopping-place during a journey; a stage.
6. An astrological house; a station of the moon.
7. One of twenty-eight sections of the sky.
8. An individual habitation or apartment within a large house or group of buildings. (Now chiefly in allusion to John 14:2.)
9. Any of the branches of the Rastafari movement.

## Etymology
Inherited from Middle English mansioun, borrowed from Anglo-Norman mansion, mansiun, from Latin mānsiō (“dwelling, stopping-place”), from the past participle stem of manēre (“stay”). By surface analysis, manse + -ion.

## Easily confused with
- **mason** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mansion-vs-mason)
- **Marion** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mansion-vs-marion)
- **Manson** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mansion-vs-manson)
- **minion** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mansion-vs-minion)
- **mission** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mansion-vs-mission)
- **mention** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mansion-vs-mention)
- **monsoon** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mansion-vs-monsoon)
- **Marston** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mansion-vs-marston)
- **Maison** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/maison-vs-mansion)

## Common misspellings (11)
`amnsion`, `manison`, `mannsion`, `mansino`, `mansionn`, `mansoin`, `manssion`, `mantion`, `masnion`, `mmansion`, `mnasion`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/mansion