version
ver·sion/ˈvɝʒən/noun, verb
version is spelled V-E-R-S-I-O-N, 2 syllables: ver·sion. The wrong spelling people search most is verion: about 1,370 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Version is a noun meaning “A specific form or variation of something”. The plural of version is versions.
How many letters and syllables are in version?
| Letters | 7: V-E-R-S-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: ver·sion |
| In writing | 117 times per million words; the 904th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, verion, about 1,370 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 version?
Version is spelled V-E-R-S-I-O-N. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 3 in 10 of the searches for version 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 version?
Version appears 117 times per million words in written English, the 904th 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 version?
- UK /ˈvɜːʒn̩/
- UK /ˈvɜːʃn̩/
- US /ˈvɝʒən/
Version has 2 syllables, split ver·sion in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-version.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with version?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as version from its last stressed vowel (/ɜɹʒən/):
- conversion
- Persian
- diversion
- immersion
- excursion
- coercion
- aversion
- dispersion
- subversion
- perversion
- emersion
- retroversion
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 version
- versions plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- versioning participle, present
- versioned participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does version mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A specific form or variation of something.
- 2
A translation from one language to another.
It's only in the King James Version of the Bible.
- 3
archaicA school exercise, generally of composition in a foreign language.
- 4
obsoleteThe act of translating, or rendering, from one language into another language.
- 5
An account or description from a particular point of view, especially as contrasted with another account.
He gave another version of the affair.
- 6
A particular revision (of software, firmware, CPU, etc.).
Upgrade to the latest version for new features and bug fixes.
- 7
A condition of the uterus in which its axis is deflected from its normal position without being bent upon itself. See anteversion and retroversion.
- 8
An eye movement involving both eyes moving synchronously and symmetrically in the same direction.
verb
- 1
To keep track of (a file, document, etc.) in a versioning system.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate version?
Wiktionary records 3 abbreviations of version: v., ver, ver..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Version in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | version |
| German | Version, Fassung, Ausgabe , versionieren |
| Portuguese | versão, variante , versionar |
| Spanish | versión |
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 version come from?
Borrowed from Middle French version, from Medieval Latin versiō, from Latin vertō (“to turn”). Used in English since 16th century.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).