session
/ˈsɛ.ʃən/noun, verb
session is spelled S-E-S-S-I-O-N. The wrong spelling people search most is sesion: about 250 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 42 of all searches for the word. Session is a noun meaning “A period of time devoted to a particular activity”. The plural of session is sessions.
How many letters and syllables are in session?
| Letters | 7: S-E-S-S-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 52 times per million words; the 1,941st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, sesion, about 250 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Pairs people search | |
| Sounds like | |
| 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 session?
Session is spelled S-E-S-S-I-O-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 42 of the searches for session 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 session?
Session appears 52 times per million words in written English, the 1,941st 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 session?
- US /ˈsɛ.ʃən/
Session 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: En-au-session.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with session
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sounds like: cession (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with session?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as session from its last stressed vowel (/ɛʃən/):
- profession
- aggression
- obsession
- progression
- compression
- oppression
- suppression
- concession
- regression
- accession
- hessian
- digression
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 session
- sessions plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- sessioning participle, present
- sessioned participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does session mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A period of time devoted to a particular activity.
counseling session
- 2
An official meeting or term of a council, court, or other body to conduct its business; e.g. the annual or semiannual periods of a legislature (that together comprise the legislative term), whose individual meetings are also called sessions.
This court is now in session.
- 3
The sequence of interactions between client and server, or between user and system; the period during which a user is logged in or connected.
Logging out or shutting down the computer will end your session.
- 4
Any of the three scheduled two-hour playing sessions, from the start of play to lunch, from lunch to tea and from tea to the close of play.
- 5
obsoleteThe act of sitting, or the state of being seated.
- 6
Ellipsis of jam session, used in isolate particularly for folk music.
- 7
An academic term; semester; school year.
- 8
An extended period of drinking, typically consuming beer with low alcohol content.
verb
- 1
To hold or participate in a jam session with other musicians.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Session 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 session come from?
From Middle English session, from Old French session, from Latin sessiō (“a sitting”), from sedeō (“sit”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).