decision
/dɪˈsɪʒn̩/noun, verb
decision is spelled D-E-C-I-S-I-O-N. The wrong spelling people search most is desicion: about 380 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 28 of all searches for the word. Decision is a noun meaning “The act of deciding”. The plural of decision is decisions.
How many letters and syllables are in decision?
| Letters | 8: D-E-C-I-S-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 123 times per million words; the 851st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 4; the most searched, desicion, about 380 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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 decision?
Decision is spelled D-E-C-I-S-I-O-N. 4 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 12 of the searches for decision 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 decision?
Decision appears 123 times per million words in written English, the 851st 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 decision?
- /dɪˈsɪʒn̩/
- [dɪˈsɪʒn̩]
Decision has 3 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-decision.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of decision
- decisions plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- decisioning participle, present
- decisioned participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does decision mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The act of deciding.
- 2
A choice or judgement.
It is the decision of the court that movies are protected as free speech.
- 3
Firmness of conviction.
After agonizing deliberations, they finally proceeded with decision.
- 4
A result arrived at by the judges when there is no clear winner at the end of the contest.
He has won twice by knockout, once by decision.
- 5
A win or a loss awarded to a pitcher.
verb
- 1
To defeat an opponent by a decision of the judges, rather than by a knockout
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Decision in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | décision, arrêt |
| German | Entscheidung, Beschluss, Beschluß, Beschlusz |
| Portuguese | decisão , julgamento, veredito, sentença |
| Spanish | decisión |
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 decision come from?
Derived from Middle French, from Latin dēcīsiō, dēcīsiōnis, from dēcīdō (“to decide”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).