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series

/ˈsɪɹ.iz/noun

series is spelled S-E-R-I-E-S. The wrong spelling people search most is serieses: about 30 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 169 of all searches for the word. Series is a noun meaning “A number of things that follow on one after the other or are connected one after the other”.

How many letters and syllables are in series?

Letters6: S-E-R-I-E-S
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing224 times per million words; the 447th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched1; the most searched, serieses, about 30 Bing searches a month (all of them)
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); 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How do you spell series?

Series is spelled S-E-R-I-E-S. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 169 of the searches for series in either form.

seriesthe right spelling5,040 searches a month
seriesesan extra e, an extra s30 searches a month

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 series?

Series appears 224 times per million words in written English, the 447th 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 series?

  • UK /ˈsɪə.ɹiːz/
  • UK /ˈsɪː.ɹiːz/
  • US /ˈsɪɹ.iz/

Series has 2 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)-Back_ache-series.wav, En-us-series.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Grendelkhan-series.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with series?

One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as series from its last stressed vowel (/ɪɹiz/):

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).

What does series mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A number of things that follow on one after the other or are connected one after the other.

    A series of seemingly inconsequential events led cumulatively to the fall of the company.

  2. 2

    A television or radio program consisting of several episodes that are broadcast at regular intervals.

    Friends was one of the most successful television series in recent years.

  3. 3

    UKSynonym of season (“one of the groups of episodes that together make up a whole series”).

    I enjoyed the third series of Friends.

  4. 4

    The sequence of partial sums ∑ᵢ₌₁ⁿa_i of a given sequence aᵢ.

    The harmonic series has been much studied.

  5. 5

    A group of matches between two sides, with the aim being to win more matches than the opposition.

    The Blue Jays are playing the Yankees in a four-game series.

  6. 6

    The optional taxonomic rank above order/subseries, but below superorder.

  7. 7

    The optional taxonomic rank above group, but below epifamily.

  8. 8

    A subdivision of a genus, a taxonomic rank below that of section (and subsection) but above that of species.

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

How do you abbreviate series?

Wiktionary records one abbreviation of series: ser..

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

Series in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchsuite, série (a number of things that follow on one after the…)
GermanSerie (a number of things that follow on one after the…), Fernsehserie (television or radio program), Reihe (in analysis: sum of the terms of a sequence)
Portuguesesérie, sequência (a number of things that follow on one after the…), seriado (television or radio program)
Spanishserie, retahíla (a number of things that follow on one after the…), serie de televisión, teleserie, serial televisivo (television or radio program)

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 series come from?

Attested from the 1610s; borrowed from Latin seriēs, from serere (“to join together, bind”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to bind, put together, to line up”). Related to desert, insert, sermon, and sorcerer.

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

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