season
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "season", 6-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Hunspell error dictionaries, and usage frequency ranked against the top 100,000 English words in the Wordfreq corpus. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "season" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "season" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
season is aEnglishnoun. It means: Each of the four divisions of a year: spring, summer, autumn (fall) and winter Pronounced [ˈsiː.zn̩]. It ranks #315 in English word frequency. Often confused with seton and sensor.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | season |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈsiː.zn̩] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #315 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for season is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈsiː.zn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #315 in overall English word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for season, with forms such as "esason", "saeson", and "seaosn". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "seton", "sensor", "Sharon", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English sesoun, seson (“time of the year”), from Old French seson, saison (“time of sowing, seeding”), from Latin satiō (“act of sowing, planting”) from satum, past participle of serō (“to sow, plant”) from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁- (“to sow, p… Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is season, spelled S-E-A-S-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Each of the four divisions of a year: spring, summer, autumn (fall) and winter
- 2A period of the year when something particular happens.
- 3A period of the year in which a place is most busy or frequented for business, amusement, etc.
- 4The period over which a series of Test matches are played.
- 5That which gives relish; seasoning.
- 6A group of episodes of a television or radio program broadcast in regular intervals with a long break between each group, usually with one year between the beginning of each.
- 7An extended, undefined period of time.
- 8A period of time in one’s life characterized by a particular emotion of situation.
- 9The full set of downloadable content for a game, which can be purchased with a season pass.
- 10A fixed period of time in a massively multiplayer online game in which new content (themes, rules, modes, etc.) becomes available, sometimes replacing earlier content.
Etymology
From Middle English sesoun, seson (“time of the year”), from Old French seson, saison (“time of sowing, seeding”), from Latin satiō (“act of sowing, planting”) from satum, past participle of serō (“to sow, plant”) from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁- (“to sow, plant”). Akin to Old English sāwan (“to sow”), sǣd (“seed”). Doublet of saison. Displaced native Middle English sele (“season”) (from Old English sǣl (“season, time, occasion”)), Middle English tide (“season, time of year”) (from Old English tīd (“time, period, yeartide, season”)).
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: esason,saeson,seaosn,seasno,seasonn,seasson,sesaon,sseason
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for season
Misspelling Variants of "season"
Frequency rank: #315 in English
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