resurrection
/ɹɛzəˈɹɛkʃən/noun
resurrection is spelled R-E-S-U-R-R-E-C-T-I-O-N. The wrong spelling people search most is ressurection: about 420 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 14 of all searches for the word. Resurrection is a noun meaning “The act of arising from the dead and becoming alive again”. The plural of resurrection is resurrections.
How many letters and syllables are in resurrection?
| Letters | 12: R-E-S-U-R-R-E-C-T-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 5.8 times per million words; the 10,196th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 3; the most searched, ressurection, about 420 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 resurrection?
Resurrection is spelled R-E-S-U-R-R-E-C-T-I-O-N. 3 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for resurrection 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 resurrection?
Resurrection appears 5.8 times per million words in written English, the 10,196th 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 resurrection?
- /ɹɛzəˈɹɛkʃən/
- /ɹɛzəˈɹɛkʃn̩/
Resurrection 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: En-us-resurrection.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of resurrection
- resurrections plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does resurrection mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The act of arising from the dead and becoming alive again.
- 2
The act of being raised from the dead into immortal life (as distinguished from a resuscitation into ordinary mortal life).
- 3
The general resurrection.
- 4
A miraculous comeback or revival (e.g., of a TV series); recovery from a dire predicament.
- 5
archaicThe act of bodysnatching (illicitly exhuming a cadaver).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate resurrection?
Wiktionary records 2 abbreviations of resurrection: res, rez.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Resurrection in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense act of arising from the dead:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | résurrection |
| German | Wiederauferstehung, Auferstehung |
| Portuguese | ressurreição |
| Spanish | resurrección |
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 resurrection come from?
From Middle English resurreccioun, resurrection, from Anglo-Norman resurrectiun, Old French resurrection (French: résurrection), and their etymon Late Latin resurrēctiōnem (accusative of resurrēctiō) from Latin resurgō (“to rise again”), from re- (“again”), + surgō (“to rise”). By surface analysis, resurrect + -ion. Displaced native Old English ǣrist.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).