omission
/oʊˈmɪʃ.ən/noun
omission is spelled O-M-I-S-S-I-O-N. The wrong spelling people search most is ommission: about 150 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026). Omission is a noun meaning “The act of omitting”. The plural of omission is omissions.
How many letters and syllables are in omission?
| Letters | 8: O-M-I-S-S-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 2.0 times per million words; the 19,589th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 3; the most searched, ommission, about 150 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 omission?
Omission is spelled O-M-I-S-S-I-O-N. 3 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure.
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 omission?
Omission 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 omission?
- UK /ə(ʊ)ˈmɪʃ.ən/
- US /oʊˈmɪʃ.ən/
Omission has 3 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: En-ca-omission.oga, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Naomi_Persephone_Amethyst_(NaomiAmethyst)-omission.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with omission?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as omission 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 omission
- omissions plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does omission mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The act of omitting.
- 2
The act of neglecting to perform an action one has an obligation to do.
E&O insurance (for errors and omissions) covers both errors of commission and errors of omission.
- 3
An instance of those acts, or the thing left out thereby; something deleted or left out.
The suspicious omissions in the new edition of the book attracted claims of censorship.
- 4
Something not done or neglected.
The lack of a sponge count was an omission by the surgical team.
- 5
The shortening of a word or phrase, using an apostrophe ( ' ) to replace the missing letters, often used to approximate the sound of speech or a specific dialect.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Omission in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | omission , oubli |
| German | Unterlassung, Unterlassen , Auslassung |
| Portuguese | omissão , negligência |
| Spanish | omisión |
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 omission come from?
From Middle English omissioun, from Old French omission, from Late Latin omissio, omissionem, from Latin omitto.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).