segmentation
noun
segmentation is spelled S-E-G-M-E-N-T-A-T-I-O-N. The wrong spelling people search most is segementation: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 97 of all searches for the word. Segmentation is a noun meaning “The act or an instance of dividing into segments”. The plural of segmentation is segmentations.
How many letters and syllables are in segmentation?
| Letters | 12: S-E-G-M-E-N-T-A-T-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.7 times per million words; the 21,516th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, segementation, about 10 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 segmentation?
Segmentation is spelled S-E-G-M-E-N-T-A-T-I-O-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 97 of the searches for segmentation 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 segmentation?
Segmentation appears 1.7 times per million words in written English, the 21,516th 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 segmentation?
Segmentation 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-segmentation.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of segmentation
- segmentations plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does segmentation mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The act or an instance of dividing into segments.
Near-synonym: sectioning
- 2
The state of being divided into segments
- 3
The partitioning of an image into groups of pixels
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Segmentation in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense the act or an instance of dividing into segments:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | segmentation |
| German | Segmentierung |
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 segmentation come from?
From segment + -ation.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).