elimination
/ɪlɪmɪˈneɪʃ(ə)n/noun
elimination is spelled E-L-I-M-I-N-A-T-I-O-N: 11 letters and 5 syllables. It appears 8.5 times per million words in written English, the 7,910th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, elimination means “The act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of elimination is eliminations.
How many letters and syllables are in elimination?
| Letters | 11: E-L-I-M-I-N-A-T-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 5 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 8.5 times per million words; the 7,910th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
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).
How common is elimination?
Elimination appears 8.5 times per million words in written English, the 7,910th 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 elimination?
- /ɪlɪmɪˈneɪʃ(ə)n/
Elimination has 5 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-elimination.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-elimination.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of elimination
- eliminations plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does elimination mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off.
- 2
The act of excluding a losing contestant from a match, tournament, or other competition.
Everton require at least 3 goals in the second leg to avoid elimination from the FA Cup.
- 3
The act of voting off or throwing off a contestant in a reality television competition.
- 4
The act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories.
- 5
The act of causing a quantity to disappear from an equation; especially, in the operation of deducing from several equations containing several unknown quantities a less number of equations containing a less number of unknown quantities.
- 6
The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction.
- 7
The act of recording amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate elimination?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of elimination: elim.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Elimination in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | élimination |
| German | Elimination |
| Spanish | eliminación |
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 elimination come from?
Borrowed from Latin ēliminātiō, from eliminate + -ion.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).