succession
suc·ces·sion/səkˈsɛʃ.ən/noun
succession is spelled S-U-C-C-E-S-S-I-O-N, 3 syllables: suc·ces·sion. The wrong spelling people search most is succesion: about 330 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026). Succession is a noun meaning “An act of following in sequence”. The plural of succession is successions.
How many letters and syllables are in succession?
| Letters | 10: S-U-C-C-E-S-S-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: suc·ces·sion |
| In writing | 9.3 times per million words; the 7,445th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, succesion, about 330 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 succession?
Succession is spelled S-U-C-C-E-S-S-I-O-N. 2 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 succession?
Succession appears 9.3 times per million words in written English, the 7,445th 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 succession?
- UK /səkˈsɛʃ.ən/
Succession has 3 syllables, split suc·ces·sion in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-succession.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with succession?
3 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as succession from its last stressed vowel (/ɛʃən/, British pronunciation):
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 succession
- successions plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does succession mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An act of following in sequence.
- 2
A sequence of things in order.
- 3
A passing of royal powers.
- 4
A group of rocks or strata that succeed one another in chronological order.
- 5
A race or series of descendants.
- 6
Rotation, as of crops.
- 7
A right to take possession.
- 8
In Roman and Scots law, the taking of property by one person in place of another.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Succession in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | succession |
| Portuguese | sucessão |
| Spanish | sucesión |
| German | Abfolge , Thronfolge |
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 succession come from?
Inherited from Middle English [Term?], from Old French succession, from Latin successiō (noun).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).