transportation
trans·por·ta·tion/tɹænspɚˈteɪʃən/noun
transportation is spelled T-R-A-N-S-P-O-R-T-A-T-I-O-N, 4 syllables: trans·por·ta·tion. The wrong spelling people search most is transporation: about 240 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 110 of all searches for the word. Transportation is a noun meaning “The act of transporting, or the state of being transported; conveyance, often of people, goods etc”. The plural of transportation is transportations.
How many letters and syllables are in transportation?
| Letters | 14: T-R-A-N-S-P-O-R-T-A-T-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4: trans·por·ta·tion |
| In writing | 37 times per million words; the 2,618th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, transporation, about 240 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 transportation?
Transportation is spelled T-R-A-N-S-P-O-R-T-A-T-I-O-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 110 of the searches for transportation 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 transportation?
Transportation appears 37 times per million words in written English, the 2,618th 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 transportation?
- UK /tɹænspɔːˈteɪʃən/
- US /tɹænspɚˈteɪʃən/
Transportation has 4 syllables, split trans·por·ta·tion in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-transportation.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with transportation?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as transportation from its last stressed vowel (/eɪʃən/):
- situation
- association
- population
- administration
- operation
- organization
- application
- location
- generation
- foundation
- conversation
- investigation
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 transportation
- transportations plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does transportation mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
USThe act of transporting, or the state of being transported; conveyance, often of people, goods etc.
We have to get people out of their cars and encourage them to use alternative forms of transportation.
- 2
Deportation to a penal colony.
Mulligan's sentence was commuted from death to transportation.
- 3
USA means or manner of conveyance; a system of conveyance.
Nice transportation, dude, but your brake lights are busted.
- 4
USA ticket or fare.
- 5
Punishment by sending to a penal colony, such as Australia.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate transportation?
Wiktionary records 2 abbreviations of transportation: Transp., transpo.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Transportation in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | transport , transportation |
| German | Beförderung, Transport |
| Portuguese | transporte |
| Spanish | transportación |
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.