recension
re·cens·ion/ɹɪˈsɛnʃən/noun
recension is spelled R-E-C-E-N-S-I-O-N: 9 letters and 3 syllables (re·cens·ion). It appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 98,107th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, recension means “A census, an enumeration, a review, a survey” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of recension is recensions.
How many letters and syllables are in recension?
| Letters | 9: R-E-C-E-N-S-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: re·cens·ion |
| In writing | about once in every 11 million words; the 98,107th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is recension?
Recension appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 98,107th 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 recension?
- UK /ɹɪˈsɛnʃən/
- US /ɹɪˈsɛnʃən/
- US [ɹ̠ʷɪ̈ˈsɛ̃n(t̚)ʃə̃n]
Recension has 3 syllables, split re·cens·ion in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-recension.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with recension?
9 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as recension 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 recension
- recensions plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does recension mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A census, an enumeration, a review, a survey.
- 2
A critical revision of a text.
- 3
A text established by critical revision.
- 4
A family of manuscripts which share similar traits; the variety of a language which is used in such manuscripts.
The existence of two major literary centres in the First Bulgarian Empire led to the emergence of two recensions of Old Church Slavonic: the Bulgarian Recension and the Macedonian Recension.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Recension in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense critical revision of a text:
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 recension come from?
From Latin recēnsiō (“enumeration; review; reassessment”), from recēnseō (“to count, reckon; to examine, review; to go over, revise”), from re- (“again”) (from Proto-Italic *wre- (“again”); further etymology uncertain) + cēnseō (“to give an opinion; to suppose, think; to assess”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱn̥seh₁-, *ḱn̥seye- (“to announce”)).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).