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suffusion

/səˈfjuːʒən/noun

suffusion is a noun meaning “The act of pouring a liquid over or soaking something” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-U-F-F-U-S-I-O-N, and it appears about once in every 22 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of suffusion is suffusions.

What does suffusion mean?

noun

  1. 1

    The act of pouring a liquid over or soaking something.

  2. 2

    A coat, coating, film, or plating.

  3. 3

    The state of being wet.

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

How do you pronounce suffusion?

  • /səˈfjuːʒən/

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

Forms of suffusion

  • suffusions plural

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

How common is suffusion?

Suffusion appears about once in every 22 million words in written English, the 143,405th 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).

Suffusion in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense the act of pouring a liquid over or soaking something:

LanguageWords
GermanÜberziehen, Durchziehen, Durchtränken, Benetzen, Bedecken, Durchfluten

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 suffusion come from?

From suffuse + -ion.

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