mention
men·tion/ˈmɛnʃən/noun, verb
mention is spelled M-E-N-T-I-O-N, 2 syllables: men·tion. The wrong spelling people search most is metion: about 30 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 27 of all searches for the word. Mention is a noun meaning “A speaking or noticing of anything, usually in a brief or cursory manner”. The plural of mention is mentions.
How many letters and syllables are in mention?
| Letters | 7: M-E-N-T-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: men·tion |
| In writing | 54 times per million words; the 1,899th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, metion, about 30 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell mention?
Mention is spelled M-E-N-T-I-O-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 27 of the searches for mention 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 mention?
Mention appears 54 times per million words in written English, the 1,899th 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 mention?
- US /ˈmɛnʃən/
- UK /ˈmɛnʃn̩/
Mention has 2 syllables, split men·tion in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-mention.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with mention?
9 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as mention from its last stressed vowel (/ɛnʃən/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of mention
- mentions plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- mentioning participle, present
- mentioned participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does mention mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A speaking or noticing of anything, usually in a brief or cursory manner.
- 2
A social media feed, a list of replies or posts mentioning a person.
verb
- 1
To make mention of; to speak of; to refer to; to name; to specify
He happened to mention your name to me.
- 2
To utter a word or expression in order to refer to the expression itself, as opposed to its usual referent.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Mention in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Erwähnung , erwähnen |
| Portuguese | menção , mencionar |
| Spanish | mención, minción , mencionar, mentar |
| French | mentionner |
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 mention come from?
Inherited from Middle English mencioun, mention, from Old French mention, from Latin mentiōnem, accusative of mentiō (“a mention, calling to mind”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).