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season

sea·son[ˈsi.zn̩]noun, verb

season is spelled S-E-A-S-O-N: 6 letters and 2 syllables (sea·son). It appears 302 times per million words in written English, the 316th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, season means “Each of the divisions of a year based on the prevailing weather: spring, summer, autumn (fall) and winter; or the rainy (monsoon) and dry season…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of season is seasons.

How many letters and syllables are in season?

Letters6: S-E-A-S-O-N
Syllables2: sea·son
In writing302 times per million words; the 316th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is season?

Season appears 302 times per million words in written English, the 316th 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 season?

  • UK [ˈsiː.zn̩]
  • US [ˈsi.zn̩]
  • Australia [ˈsɪi.zən]

Season has 2 syllables, split sea·son in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-season.ogg, En-au-season.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of season

  • seasons plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • seasoning participle, present
  • seasoned participle, past

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

What does season mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Each of the divisions of a year based on the prevailing weather: spring, summer, autumn (fall) and winter; or the rainy (monsoon) and dry season, depending on the climate.

  2. 2

    A period of the year when something particular happens.

    mating season

  3. 3

    A period of the year in which a place is most busy or frequented for business, amusement, etc.

  4. 4

    A year, but with emphasis on the most important part of the year in context, such as the months when plants or animals grow and reproduce.

    This invasive species reproduces so rapidly that it can completely take over an area in just a couple seasons.

  5. 5

    The period over which a series of Test matches are played.

  6. 6

    obsoleteThat which gives relish; seasoning.

  7. 7

    AustraliaCanadaUSA 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.

    The third season of Robot Chicken aired from 2007 to 2008.

  8. 8

    archaicAn extended, undefined period of time.

verb

  1. 1

    To habituate, accustom, or inure (someone or something) to a particular use, purpose, or circumstance.

    to season oneself to a climate

  2. 2

    To prepare by drying or hardening, or removal of natural juices.

    The timber needs to be seasoned.

  3. 3

    To become mature; to grow fit for use; to become adapted to a climate.

  4. 4

    To become dry and hard, by the escape of the natural juices, or by being penetrated with other substance.

    The wood has seasoned in the sun.

  5. 5

    To mingle: to moderate, temper, or qualify by admixture.

  6. 6

    obsoleteTo impregnate (literally or figuratively).

  7. 7

    To flavour food with spices, herbs or salt.

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

How do you abbreviate season?

Wiktionary records 3 abbreviations of season: S, s., szn.

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

Season in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchsaison (quarter of a year), temps ((obsolete) an extended, undefined period of time), aguerrir (to become mature), épicer, assaisonner (to flavour food)
GermanJahreszeit (quarter of a year), Saison (part of year with something special), Staffel (a group of episodes), anpassen, abhärten (to make fit for any use by time or habit), trocknen (to prepare by drying or hardening)
Portugueseestação, sazão (quarter of a year), condimentar, temperar (to flavour food), temporada (part of year with something special)
Spanishestación (quarter of a year), temporada, período, época (del año) (part of year with something special), habituar, acostumbrar (to make fit for any use by time or habit)

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 season come from?

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”)).

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

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