refrigeration
noun
refrigeration is spelled R-E-F-R-I-G-E-R-A-T-I-O-N. The wrong spelling people search most is refridgeration: about 220 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 16 of all searches for the word. Refrigeration is a noun meaning “The process of transferring heat from an object in order to cool it”. The plural of refrigeration is refrigerations.
How many letters and syllables are in refrigeration?
| Letters | 13: R-E-F-R-I-G-E-R-A-T-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 5 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.5 times per million words; the 22,965th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, refridgeration, about 220 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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).
How do you spell refrigeration?
Refrigeration is spelled R-E-F-R-I-G-E-R-A-T-I-O-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 16 of the searches for refrigeration 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 refrigeration?
Refrigeration appears 1.5 times per million words in written English, the 22,965th 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 refrigeration?
- US
Refrigeration 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)-Wodencafe-refrigeration.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of refrigeration
- refrigerations plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does refrigeration mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The process of transferring heat from an object in order to cool it.
- 2
The process of preserving something by cooling.
- 3
The cooling of the body for therapeutic purposes.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Refrigeration in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | réfrigération |
| German | Kühlung , Tiefkühlung |
| Portuguese | refrigeração |
| Spanish | refrigeración |
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 refrigeration come from?
From Latin refrigero. Morphologically refrigerate + -ion.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).