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reservation

/ˌɹɛz.ɚˈveɪ.ʃən/noun

reservation is spelled R-E-S-E-R-V-A-T-I-O-N: 11 letters and 4 syllables. It appears 8.9 times per million words in written English, the 7,672nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, reservation means “The act of reserving, withholding or keeping back” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of reservation is reservations.

How many letters and syllables are in reservation?

Letters11: R-E-S-E-R-V-A-T-I-O-N
Syllables4 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing8.9 times per million words; the 7,672nd 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 reservation?

Reservation appears 8.9 times per million words in written English, the 7,672nd 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 reservation?

  • US /ˌɹɛz.ɚˈveɪ.ʃən/

Reservation has 4 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-reservation.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with reservation?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as reservation 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 reservation

  • reservations plural

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

What does reservation mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The act of reserving, withholding or keeping back.

    The committee authorised the reservation of funds.

  2. 2

    The practice of reserving part of the consecrated bread of the Eucharist for the communion of the sick.

  3. 3

    The act of the pope to reserve to himself the right to nominate to certain benefices.

  4. 4

    Something that is withheld or kept back.

  5. 5

    A limiting qualification regarding certainty or risk; a doubt or concern.

    I have reservations about your intentions.

  6. 6

    USA tract of land set apart by the US government for the use of a Native American people, such as the Hopi Reservation or the Navajo Nation's territory.

  7. 7

    An arrangement by which accommodation or transport arrangements are secured in advance.

    I have a hotel reservation in the name of Mr Smith.

  8. 8

    UKThe area which separates opposing lanes of traffic on a divided motorway or dual carriageway.

    A vehicle crashed through the central reservation into the path of oncoming traffic.

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

How do you abbreviate reservation?

Wiktionary records one abbreviation of reservation: rezzy.

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

Reservation in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchréservation (act of withholding), réserve (limiting qualification)
GermanReservierung (act of withholding), Bedenken (limiting qualification), Vorbehalt (something withheld), Reservat (tract of land)
Portuguesereserva, reservação (act of withholding), ressalva (limiting qualification)
Spanishreserva (limiting qualification), coto (tract of land), reservación (arrangement by which something is secured in…)

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 reservation come from?

From Middle French reservation, equivalent to reserve + -ation.

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

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