exaggeration
ex·ag·ger·a·tion/ɪɡˌzæd͡ʒəˈɹeɪʃən/noun
exaggeration is spelled E-X-A-G-G-E-R-A-T-I-O-N, 5 syllables: ex·ag·ger·a·tion. The wrong spelling people search most is exageration: about 150 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Exaggeration is a noun meaning “The act of heaping or piling up”. The plural of exaggeration is exaggerations.
How many letters and syllables are in exaggeration?
| Letters | 12: E-X-A-G-G-E-R-A-T-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 5: ex·ag·ger·a·tion |
| In writing | 2.0 times per million words; the 19,589th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, exageration, about 150 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 exaggeration?
Exaggeration is spelled E-X-A-G-G-E-R-A-T-I-O-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for exaggeration 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 exaggeration?
Exaggeration appears 2.0 times per million words in written English, the 19,589th 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 exaggeration?
- /ɪɡˌzæd͡ʒəˈɹeɪʃən/
Exaggeration has 5 syllables, split ex·ag·ger·a·tion in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-exaggeration.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of exaggeration
- exaggerations plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does exaggeration mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The act of heaping or piling up.
- 2
The act of exaggerating; the act of doing or representing in an excessive manner; a going beyond the bounds of truth, reason, or justice; a hyperbolical representation; hyperbole; overstatement.
They say he's a millionnaire, but that's a massive exaggeration.
- 3
A representation of things beyond natural life, in expression, beauty, power, vigor.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Exaggeration in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense act of exaggerating:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | exagération |
| German | Übertreibung |
| Portuguese | exagero |
| Spanish | exageración |
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 exaggeration come from?
Borrowed from Latin exaggerātiō.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).