# elimination

> English word · Noun · IPA /ɪlɪmɪˈneɪʃ(ə)n/ · frequency rank #7,917

## Definitions
1. The act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off.
2. The act of excluding a losing contestant from a match, tournament, or other competition.
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.

## Etymology
Borrowed from Latin ēliminātiō, from eliminate + -ion.

## Easily confused with
- **examination** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/elimination-vs-examination)

## Common misspellings (16)
`eilmination`, `eliimnation`, `elimiantion`, `eliminaiton`, `eliminasion`, `eliminatino`, `eliminationn`, `eliminatoin`, `eliminattion`, `eliminnation`, `elimintaion`, `elimmination`, `elimniation`, `ellimination`, `elmiination`, `leimination`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/elimination