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qualification

/ˌkwɑlɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/noun

qualification is spelled Q-U-A-L-I-F-I-C-A-T-I-O-N: 13 letters and 5 syllables. It appears 7.6 times per million words in written English, the 8,542nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, qualification means “The act or process of qualifying for a position, achievement etc” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of qualification is qualifications.

How many letters and syllables are in qualification?

Letters13: Q-U-A-L-I-F-I-C-A-T-I-O-N
Syllables5 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing7.6 times per million words; the 8,542nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is qualification?

Qualification appears 7.6 times per million words in written English, the 8,542nd 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 qualification?

  • UK /ˌkwɒlɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
  • US /ˌkwɑlɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/

Qualification 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-qualification.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with qualification?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as qualification from its last stressed vowel (/eɪʃən/):

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 qualification

  • qualifications plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does qualification mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    The act or process of qualifying for a position, achievement etc.

    Qualification for this organization is extraordinarily difficult.

  2. 2

    An ability or attribute that aids someone's chances of qualifying for something; specifically, completed professional training.

    What are your qualifications for this job?

  3. 3

    UKA certificate, diploma, or degree awarded after successful completion of a course, training, or exam.

  4. 4

    A clause or condition which qualifies something; a modification, a limitation.

    I accept your offer, but with the following qualification.

  5. 5

    obsoleteA quality or attribute.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you abbreviate qualification?

Wiktionary records one abbreviation of qualification: CQV.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Qualification in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Portuguesequalificação (act or process of qualifying)
Spanishexpertización (act or process of qualifying), cualificación (an ability or attribute that aids someone's…), titulación (certificate, diploma, degree), salvedad, puntualización, concreción (added clause or condition; a limitation)
Frenchqualification (an ability or attribute that aids someone's…)
GermanQualifizierung, Qualifikation (an ability or attribute that aids someone's…), Zertifikat, Diplom, Eignungszeugnis (certificate, diploma, degree)

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 qualification come from?

Borrowed from Middle French qualification in the 1540s, which in turn derives from Medieval Latin quālificātiō. By surface analysis, qual(ify) + -ification.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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