organisation
/ˌoɹ.ɡə.nɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/noun
organisation is spelled O-R-G-A-N-I-S-A-T-I-O-N. The wrong spelling people search most is organistion: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 84 of all searches for the word. Organisation is a noun meaning “Non-Oxford British English and Australian standard spelling of organization”. The plural of organisation is organisations.
How many letters and syllables are in organisation?
| Letters | 12: O-R-G-A-N-I-S-A-T-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 5 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 23 times per million words; the 3,875th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, organistion, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; 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 organisation?
Organisation is spelled O-R-G-A-N-I-S-A-T-I-O-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 84 of the searches for organisation 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 organisation?
Organisation appears 23 times per million words in written English, the 3,875th 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 organisation?
- UK /ˈɔː.ɡə.naɪˌzeɪ.ʃən/
- US /ˌoɹ.ɡə.nɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/
- Australia /ˌoː.ɡə.nɑeˈzæɪ.ʃən/
Organisation has 5 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-organisation.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with organisation?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as organisation from its last stressed vowel (/eɪʃən/):
- situation
- association
- population
- administration
- operation
- organization
- application
- location
- generation
- foundation
- conversation
- investigation
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 organisation
- organisations plural
- organization US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does organisation mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Non-Oxford British English and Australian standard spelling of organization.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does organisation come from?
From Middle French organisation, equivalent to organise + -ation.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).