rotation
/ɹoʊˈteɪʃən/noun
rotation is spelled R-O-T-A-T-I-O-N: 8 letters and 3 syllables. It appears 12 times per million words in written English, the 6,230th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, rotation means “The act of turning around a centre or an axis” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of rotation is rotations.
How many letters and syllables are in rotation?
| Letters | 8: R-O-T-A-T-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 12 times per million words; the 6,230th 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 rotation?
Rotation appears 12 times per million words in written English, the 6,230th 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 rotation?
- US /ɹoʊˈteɪʃən/
Rotation 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-rotation.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with rotation?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as rotation from its last stressed vowel (/eɪʃən/):
- situation
- association
- population
- administration
- operation
- organization
- application
- location
- generation
- foundation
- conversation
- investigation
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 rotation
- rotations plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does rotation mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The act of turning around a centre or an axis.
The earth's rotation about its axis is responsible for its being slightly oblate rather than a sphere.
- 2
A single complete cycle around a centre or an axis.
Earth's moon completes a rotation every twenty-seven days or so.
- 3
A regular variation in a sequence, such as to even out wear, or people taking turns in a task; a duty roster.
Applying crop rotation to a field avoids depleting soil nutrients the way repeated use of a single crop might do.
- 4
Тhe movement of investments between different sectors of an economy, or styles of investing, based on anticipated changes in the economic or market cycle.
Sector rotation attempts to capitalize on the tendency of certain sectors to outperform others during specific economic phases, while style rotation involves shifting investments between different investment styles, such as moving from grow
- 5
An operation on a metric space that is a continuous isometry and fixes at least one point.
The function mapping (x,y) to (−y,x) is a rotation.
- 6
The set of starting pitchers of a team.
- 7
The step during takeoff when the pilot commands the vehicle to lift the nose wheel off the ground during the takeoff roll. (see also: V2)
- 8
Repeated play of songs on a radio station, advertisements on a television channel, etc.
The new single enjoyed heavy rotation on MTV.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate rotation?
Wiktionary records 2 abbreviations of rotation: rot., rotn.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Rotation in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
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 rotation come from?
Borrowed from Latin rotātiō. By surface analysis, rotate + -ion.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).