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seizure

/ˈsi.ʒɚ/noun, verb

seizure is spelled S-E-I-Z-U-R-E. The wrong spelling people search most is siezure: about 310 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 26 of all searches for the word. Seizure is a noun meaning “The act of taking possession, as by force or right of law”. The plural of seizure is seizures.

How many letters and syllables are in seizure?

Letters7: S-E-I-Z-U-R-E
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing5.5 times per million words; the 10,519th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched1; the most searched, siezure, about 310 Bing searches a month (all of them)

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).

How do you spell seizure?

Seizure is spelled S-E-I-Z-U-R-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 26 of the searches for seizure in either form.

seizurethe right spelling7,720 searches a month
siezuree and i swapped310 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 seizure?

Seizure appears 5.5 times per million words in written English, the 10,519th 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 seizure?

  • UK /ˈsiː.ʒə(ɹ)/
  • US /ˈsi.ʒɚ/
  • Australia /ˈsiː.ʒə(ɹ)/

Seizure has 2 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-seizure.wav, En-us-seizure.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of seizure

  • seizures plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • seizuring participle, present
  • seizured participle, past

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

What does seizure mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The act of taking possession, as by force or right of law.

    the seizure of a thief, a property, a throne, etc.

  2. 2

    The state of being seized or of having been taken.

    The continued seizure of the car is a violation of my rights.

  3. 3

    That which is seized, or taken possession of; a thing laid hold of, or possessed.

    The seizure includes various belongings taken from his house and his office.

  4. 4

    obsoleteA retention within one's grasp or power; possession; ownership.

  5. 5

    A sudden onset of pain or emotion.

    He felt the seizure of pain when the heart attack began.

  6. 6

    A sudden attack or convulsion; the physical manifestation of the abnormal electrical discharges in the brain characteristic of epilepsy.

    epileptic seizure

  7. 7

    An abnormal electrical discharge in the brain, as is typical of epilepsy.

verb

  1. 1

    informalTo experience an epileptic seizure.

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

Seizure in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchsaisie (act of taking possession, as by force or right…), attaque, crise (sudden attack or convulsion – see also seize…)
GermanBeschlagnahme (act of taking possession, as by force or right…), Anfall (sudden attack or convulsion – see also seize…)
Portugueseapreensão, apropriação (act of taking possession, as by force or right…), convulsão (sudden attack or convulsion – see also seize…), ataque (sudden onset of pain or emotion)
Spanishincautación, decomiso, comiso, peindra (act of taking possession, as by force or right…), unas convulsiones (epilépticas), unos espasmos (epilépticos) (sudden attack or convulsion – see also seize…)

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 seizure come from?

From seize + -ure.

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

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