proportions
pro·por·tions/pɹəˈpɔɹʃənz/noun, verb
proportions is spelled P-R-O-P-O-R-T-I-O-N-S, 3 syllables: pro·por·tions. The wrong spelling people search most is propotions: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 62 of all searches for the word. Proportions is a noun meaning “A person's figure”.
How many letters and syllables are in proportions?
| Letters | 11: P-R-O-P-O-R-T-I-O-N-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: pro·por·tions |
| In writing | 4.6 times per million words; the 11,870th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, propotions, about 10 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 proportions?
Proportions is spelled P-R-O-P-O-R-T-I-O-N-S. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 62 of the searches for proportions 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 proportions?
Proportions appears 4.6 times per million words in written English, the 11,870th 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 proportions?
- US /pɹəˈpɔɹʃənz/
- UK /pɹəˈpɔːʃənz/
- /pɹəˈpo(ː)ɹʃənz/
Proportions has 3 syllables, split pro·por·tions in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does proportions mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
informalA person's figure.
- 2
The measurements of a flag, described using a ratio.
- 3
plural of proportion
verb
- 1
third-person singular simple present indicative of proportion
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).