decongestion
noun
decongestion is a noun meaning “The process of decongesting something” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled D-E-C-O-N-G-E-S-T-I-O-N, and it appears about once in every 83 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of decongestion is decongestions.
What does decongestion mean?
noun
- 1
The process of decongesting something.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of decongestion
- decongestions plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is decongestion?
Decongestion appears about once in every 83 million words in written English, the 290,185th 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).
Where does decongestion come from?
From de- + congestion.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).