religion
/ɹɪˈlɪd͡ʒ.ən/noun, verb
religion is spelled R-E-L-I-G-I-O-N: 8 letters and 3 syllables. It appears 55 times per million words in written English, the 1,865th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, religion means “Belief in a spiritual or metaphysical reality (often including at least one deity), accompanied by practices or rituals pertaining to the belief” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of religion is religions.
How many letters and syllables are in religion?
| Letters | 8: R-E-L-I-G-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 55 times per million words; the 1,865th 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 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 religion?
Religion appears 55 times per million words in written English, the 1,865th 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 religion?
- US /ɹɪˈlɪd͡ʒ.ən/
- /ɹəˈləd͡ʒ.ən/
Religion has 3 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: En-uk-religion.ogg, En-us-religion.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with religion?
2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as religion from its last stressed vowel (/ɪdʒən/):
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 religion
- religions plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- religioning participle, present
- religioned participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does religion mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Belief in a spiritual or metaphysical reality (often including at least one deity), accompanied by practices or rituals pertaining to the belief.
Holonyms: cosmology, ontology, epistemology, philosophy
- 2
A particular system of such belief, and the rituals and practices proper to it.
Holonyms: cosmology, ontology, epistemology, philosophy
- 3
The way of life committed to by monks and nuns.
The monk entered religion when he was 20 years of age.
- 4
informalRituals and actions associated with religious beliefs, but considered apart from them.
I think some Christians would love Jesus more if they weren't so stuck in religion.
- 5
Any practice to which someone or some group is seriously devoted.
At this point, Star Trek has really become a religion.
- 6
obsoleteFaithfulness to a given principle; conscientiousness.
verb
- 1
Engage in religious practice.
- 2
Indoctrinate into a specific religion.
To men whose minds are thus religioned, tied back to gods that never advance, there can never be any such word as progress
- 3
To make sacred or symbolic; sanctify.
The ideas expressed above challenge us to continuously rupture and interrupt racialized, classed, gendered, religioned and sexualized norms that inhere between and within institutions, understandings of bodies and our Selves.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate religion?
Wiktionary records 2 abbreviations of religion: relig, relig..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Religion in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death:
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.