region
re·gion/ˈɹi.d͡ʒən/noun
region is spelled R-E-G-I-O-N, 2 syllables: re·gion. The wrong spelling people search most is rigion: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 294 of all searches for the word. Region is a noun meaning “Any considerable and connected part of a space or surface; specifically, a tract of land or sea of…”. The plural of region is regions.
How many letters and syllables are in region?
| Letters | 6: R-E-G-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: re·gion |
| In writing | 100 times per million words; the 1,076th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, rigion, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell region?
Region is spelled R-E-G-I-O-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 298 of the searches for region 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 region?
Region appears 100 times per million words in written English, the 1,076th 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 region?
- UK /ˈɹiːd͡ʒən/
- UK [ˈɹiːd͡ʒn̩]
- US /ˈɹi.d͡ʒən/
Region has 2 syllables, split re·gion in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-region.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with region?
2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as region from its last stressed vowel (/idʒən/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: ignore.
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 region
- regions plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does region mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Any considerable and connected part of a space or surface; specifically, a tract of land or sea of considerable but indefinite extent; a country; a district; in a broad sense, a place without special reference to location or extent but viewed as an entity for geographical, social or cultural reasons.
the equatorial regions
- 2
Such a division of the city of Rome and of the territory about Rome, of which the number varied at different times; a district, quarter, or ward.
- 3
An administrative subdivision of the European Union.
- 4
A subnational region of Chile; equivalent to province.
- 5
Ellipsis of regional municipality, a county-level municipality.
- 6
Ellipsis of administrative region.
- 7
A subprovincial region of Quebec; the primary level subdivision; a prefecture.
- 8
The inhabitants of a region or district of a country.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Region in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | région |
| German | Gegend, Region, Raum, Gebiet , Bezirk, Gau |
| Portuguese | região |
| Spanish | región |
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 region come from?
From Middle English regioun, from Anglo-Norman regiun, from Latin regiō, from regō. Doublet of regio.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).