What it means
- (noun) The act of congregating or collecting together.
- (noun) A gathering of faithful in a temple, church, synagogue, mosque or other place of worship. It can also refer to the people who are present at a devotional service in the building, particularly in contrast to the pastor, minister, imam, rabbi etc. and/or choir, who may be seated apart from the general congregation or lead the service (notably in responsory form).
- (noun) A Roman Congregation, a main department of the Vatican administration of the Catholic Church.
- (noun) A corporate body whose members gather for worship, or the members of such a body.
- (noun) Any large gathering of people.
- (noun) A group of eagles.
- (noun) (Oxford University) The main body of university staff, comprising academics, administrative staff, heads of colleges, etc.
Letter analysis
- Congregation contains 12 letters: 5 vowel(s) and 7 consonant(s).
- It uses 9 unique letters.
- Estimated syllable count: 4.
- Scrabble-style letter score: 16.
Sub-words
- cartooning
- oceangoing
- cantering
- contagion
- container
- ignorance
- recanting
- angering
- canoeing
- catering
- congaing
- creating
- creation
- crooning
- enacting
- encoring
- enraging
- garoting
- granting
- groaning
- ignorant
- negating
- negation
- nitrogen
- reacting
- reaction
- ringtone
- tangoing
- aconite
- ancient
- anteing
- antigen
- atoning
- cannier
- canting
- carting
- cartoon
- certain
- cigaret
- coating
- cognate
- coinage
- connote
- contain
- corning
- coronae
- coronet
- craning
- crating
- earning
- erotica
- gearing
- gentian
- gracing
- granite
- grannie
- grating
- ingrate
- nearing
Related words
Other 12-letter words
- abbreviating
- abbreviation
- abolitionist
- abominations
- abortionists
- abrasiveness
- abridgements
- abstractedly
- abstractions
- abstractness
- abstruseness
- academically
- academicians
- accelerating
- acceleration
- accelerators
- accentuating
- accentuation
Words starting with CON
- con
- concatenate
- concatenated
- concatenates
- concatenating
- concatenation
- concatenations
- concave
- concavities
- concavity
- conceal
- concealed
- concealing
- concealment
- conceals
- concede
- conceded
- concedes
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Words ending with ION
Common questions
What does Congregation mean?
The act of congregating or collecting together.
How many letters are in Congregation?
Congregation has 12 letters.
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