session
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "session", 7-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 "session" 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 "session" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
session is aEnglishnoun. It means: A period of time devoted to a particular activity. Pronounced /ˈsɛ.ʃən/. It ranks #1,966 in English word frequency. Often confused with sessions and season.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | session |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈsɛ.ʃən/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,966 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for session is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈsɛ.ʃən/. Corpus data places it at rank #1,966 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for session, with forms such as "esssion", "sesion", and "sesison". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "sessions", "season", "section", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English session, from Old French session, from Latin sessiō (“a sitting”), from sedeō (“sit”). 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 session, spelled S-E-S-S-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1A period of time devoted to a particular activity.
- 2An 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.
- 3The sequence of interactions between client and server, or between user and system; the period during which a user is logged in or connected.
- 4Any 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.
- 5The act of sitting, or the state of being seated.
- 6Ellipsis of jam session, used in isolate particularly for folk music.
- 7An academic term; semester; school year.
- 8An extended period of drinking, typically consuming beer with low alcohol content.
- 9The ruling body of a congregation, consisting of the pastor and elders.
Etymology
From Middle English session, from Old French session, from Latin sessiō (“a sitting”), from sedeō (“sit”).
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: esssion,sesion,sesison,sessino,sessionn,sessoin,sestion,ssesion,ssession
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Misspelling Variants of "session"
Frequency rank: #1,966 in English
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