prohibition
pro·hi·bi·tion/ˌpɹoʊ(h)ɪˈbɪʃən/noun
prohibition is spelled P-R-O-H-I-B-I-T-I-O-N, 4 syllables: pro·hi·bi·tion. The wrong spelling people search most is prohabition: about 80 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 74 of all searches for the word. Prohibition is a noun meaning “An act of prohibiting, forbidding, disallowing, or proscribing something”. The plural of prohibition is prohibitions.
How many letters and syllables are in prohibition?
| Letters | 11: P-R-O-H-I-B-I-T-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4: pro·hi·bi·tion |
| In writing | 5.9 times per million words; the 10,028th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, prohabition, about 80 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell prohibition?
Prohibition is spelled P-R-O-H-I-B-I-T-I-O-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 74 of the searches for prohibition 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 prohibition?
Prohibition appears 5.9 times per million words in written English, the 10,028th 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 prohibition?
- UK /ˌpɹəʊ(h)ɪˈbɪʃən/
- US /ˌpɹoʊ(h)ɪˈbɪʃən/
Prohibition has 4 syllables, split pro·hi·bi·tion in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-prohibition.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with prohibition?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as prohibition 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 prohibition
- prohibitions plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does prohibition mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An act of prohibiting, forbidding, disallowing, or proscribing something.
By its terms, the Twenty-Second Amendment bars only the election of two-term Presidents, and this prohibition would not prevent someone who had twice been elected President from succeeding to the office after having been elected or appointe
- 2
A law prohibiting the manufacture or sale of alcohol.
- 3
A period of time when specific socially disapproved consumables are considered controlled substances.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Prohibition in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense act of prohibiting:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | prohibition, interdiction |
| German | Verbot |
| Portuguese | proibição |
| Spanish | prohibición |
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 prohibition come from?
From Anglo-Norman and Old French prohibicion, from Latin prohibitiō. By surface analysis, prohibit + -ion.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).