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proposition

prop·o·si·tion/ˌpɹɑpəˈzɪʃən/noun, verb

proposition is spelled P-R-O-P-O-S-I-T-I-O-N, 4 syllables: prop·o·si·tion. The wrong spelling people search most is propostion: about 40 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 48 of all searches for the word. Proposition is a noun meaning “The act of offering (an idea) for consideration”. The plural of proposition is propositions.

How many letters and syllables are in proposition?

Letters11: P-R-O-P-O-S-I-T-I-O-N
Syllables4: prop·o·si·tion
In writing7.1 times per million words; the 8,918th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched1; the most searched, propostion, about 40 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 proposition?

Proposition is spelled P-R-O-P-O-S-I-T-I-O-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 48 of the searches for proposition in either form.

propositionthe right spelling1,880 searches a month
propostiona missing i40 searches a month

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 proposition?

Proposition appears 7.1 times per million words in written English, the 8,918th 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 proposition?

  • US /ˌpɹɑpəˈzɪʃən/

Proposition has 4 syllables, split prop·o·si·tion in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-proposition.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with proposition?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as proposition from its last stressed vowel (/ɪʃən/):

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 proposition

  • propositions plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • propositioning participle, present
  • propositioned participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does proposition mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    The act of offering (an idea) for consideration.

  2. 2

    An idea, plan, or suggestion offered.

  3. 3

    informalA suggestion of sexual intercourse (made to someone with whom one is not sexually involved).

  4. 4

    The terms of a transaction offered.

  5. 5

    USIn some states, a proposed statute or constitutional amendment to be voted on by the electorate.

  6. 6

    A complete sentence.

  7. 7

    The content of an assertion that may be taken as being true or false and is considered abstractly without reference to the linguistic sentence that constitutes the assertion; (Aristotelian logic) a predicate of a subject that is denied or affirmed and is connected by a copula.

    “Wiktionary is a good dictionary” is a proposition.

  8. 8

    An assertion so formulated that it can be considered true or false.

verb

  1. 1

    informalTo make an offer or suggestion to (someone).

  2. 2

    informalTo make a suggestion of sexual intercourse to (someone with whom one is not sexually involved).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you abbreviate proposition?

Wiktionary records one abbreviation of proposition: propn..

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Proposition in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
GermanAngebot (uncountable: act of offering for consideration), Vorschlag (idea or plan offered), Aussage, Proposition (math: assertion which can be considered true or…)
Portugueseproposição, proposta (uncountable: act of offering for consideration)
Spanishproposición (uncountable: act of offering for consideration), propuesta (idea or plan offered)
Frenchproposition (idea or plan offered)

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 proposition come from?

From Middle English proposicioun, from Old French proposicion, from Latin prōpositiō, from the verb prōponō.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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