proposition
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "proposition", 11-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Hunspell error dictionaries, and usage frequency ranked against the top 100,000 English words in the Wordfreq corpus. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "proposition" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "proposition" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
proposition is aEnglishnoun. It means: The act of offering (an idea) for consideration. Pronounced /ˌpɹɑpəˈzɪʃən/. It ranks #8,974 in English word frequency. Often confused with proportion and preposition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | proposition |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˌpɹɑpəˈzɪʃən/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #8,974 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for proposition is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˌpɹɑpəˈzɪʃən/. Corpus data places it at rank #8,974 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 17 documented wrong-spelling variants for proposition, with forms such as "porposition", "pproposition", and "proopsition". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "proportion", "preposition", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English proposicioun, from Old French proposicion, from Latin prōpositiō, from the verb prōponō. Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is proposition, spelled P-R-O-P-O-S-I-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1The act of offering (an idea) for consideration.
- 2An idea, plan, or suggestion offered.
- 3An idea, plan, or suggestion offered.
- 4The terms of a transaction offered.
- 5In some states, a proposed statute or constitutional amendment to be voted on by the electorate.
- 6A complete sentence.
- 7The 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.
- 8An assertion so formulated that it can be considered true or false.
- 9An assertion which is provably true, but not important enough to be called a theorem.
- 10A statement of religious doctrine; an article of faith; a creed.
- 11The part of a poem in which the author states the subject or matter of it.
- 12Misspelling of preposition.
Etymology
From Middle English proposicioun, from Old French proposicion, from Latin prōpositiō, from the verb prōponō.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: porposition,pproposition,proopsition,propoistion,proposiiton,proposision,propositino,propositionn,propositoin,proposittion,propossition,propostiion,propposition,propsoition,prpoosition,prroposition,rpoposition
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Relative frequency of common misspelling types for proposition
Misspelling Variants of "proposition"
Frequency rank: #8,974 in English
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