synchronization
noun
synchronization is spelled S-Y-N-C-H-R-O-N-I-Z-A-T-I-O-N. The wrong spelling people search most is syncronization: about 60 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Synchronization is a noun meaning “The state or property of being synchronized”. The plural of synchronization is synchronizations.
How many letters and syllables are in synchronization?
| Letters | 15: S-Y-N-C-H-R-O-N-I-Z-A-T-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 5 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.3 times per million words; the 25,070th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, syncronization, about 60 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Pairs people search |
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 synchronization?
Synchronization is spelled S-Y-N-C-H-R-O-N-I-Z-A-T-I-O-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for synchronization 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 synchronization?
Synchronization appears 1.3 times per million words in written English, the 25,070th 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 synchronization?
- US
Synchronization has 5 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-us-synchronization.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with synchronization
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: synchronisation.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Forms of synchronization
- synchronizations plural
- synchronisation
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does synchronization mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The state or property of being synchronized.
The generator went off line when it lost synchronization with the power line.
- 2
The arrangement of military actions in time, space, and purpose to produce maximum relative combat power at a decisive place and time.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Synchronization in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense the state or property of being synchronized:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | synchronisation |
| German | Synchronisierung |
| Portuguese | sincronização |
| Spanish | sincronización |
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.