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termination

/tɚmɪˈneɪʃən/noun

termination is spelled T-E-R-M-I-N-A-T-I-O-N: 11 letters and 4 syllables. It appears 5.4 times per million words in written English, the 10,680th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, termination means “The process of terminating or the state of being terminated” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of termination is terminations.

How many letters and syllables are in termination?

Letters11: T-E-R-M-I-N-A-T-I-O-N
Syllables4 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing5.4 times per million words; the 10,680th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is termination?

Termination appears 5.4 times per million words in written English, the 10,680th 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 termination?

  • US /tɚmɪˈneɪʃən/

Termination 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-termination.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with termination?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as termination from its last stressed vowel (/eɪʃən/):

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 termination

  • terminations plural

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

What does termination mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The process of terminating or the state of being terminated.

  2. 2

    The process of firing an employee; ending one's employment at a business for any reason.

  3. 3

    An end in time; a conclusion.

  4. 4

    An end in space; an edge or limit.

  5. 5

    An outcome or result.

  6. 6

    The last part of a word.

  7. 7

    An induced abortion.

  8. 8

    obsoleterareA word, a term.

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

Termination in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchterminaison (the process of terminating or the state of…), fin (an end in time; a conclusion), désinence ((grammar) the last part (or morpheme) of a word…)
GermanAbbruch, Kündigung (the process of terminating or the state of…), Endung ((grammar) the last part (or morpheme) of a word…)
Portuguesetérmino (the process of terminating or the state of…), conclusão, desfecho (an end in time; a conclusion), terminação ((grammar) the last part (or morpheme) of a word…), rescisão, demissão (the process of firing an employee)
Spanishterminación (the process of terminating or the state of…), desinencia ((grammar) the last part (or morpheme) of a word…), cesantía (the process of firing an employee)

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 termination come from?

Borrowed from Latin terminationem (accusative of terminatio).

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

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