demolition
/ˌdɛm.əˈlɪʃ.ən/noun
demolition is spelled D-E-M-O-L-I-T-I-O-N. The wrong spelling people search most is demolision: about 40 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 75 of all searches for the word. Demolition is a noun meaning “The process of demolishing or destroying buildings or other structures”. The plural of demolition is demolitions.
How many letters and syllables are in demolition?
| Letters | 10: D-E-M-O-L-I-T-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 4.2 times per million words; the 12,578th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, demolision, about 40 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell demolition?
Demolition is spelled D-E-M-O-L-I-T-I-O-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 75 of the searches for demolition 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 demolition?
Demolition appears 4.2 times per million words in written English, the 12,578th 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 demolition?
- US /ˌdɛm.əˈlɪʃ.ən/
Demolition has 4 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-demolition.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with demolition?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as demolition from its last stressed vowel (/ɪʃən/):
- position
- competition
- opposition
- permission
- composition
- acquisition
- coalition
- physician
- politician
- admission
- nutrition
- expedition
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 demolition
- demolitions plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does demolition mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The process of demolishing or destroying buildings or other structures.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Demolition in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense the action of demolishing or destroying:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | démolition |
| German | Zerstörung, Abriss, Demolierung, Abbruch |
| Portuguese | demolição |
| Spanish | demolición, derribo |
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 demolition come from?
From Old French demolition, from Latin dēmōlītiō (“a tearing down”). Equivalent to demolish + -ion.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).