suggest
/sə(ɡ)ˈd͡ʒɛst/verb
suggest is spelled S-U-G-G-E-S-T. The wrong spelling people search most is sugest: about 70 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 13 of all searches for the word. Suggest is a verb meaning “To imply but stop short of explicitly stating (something)”.
How many letters and syllables are in suggest?
| Letters | 7: S-U-G-G-E-S-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 56 times per million words; the 1,822nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, sugest, about 70 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell suggest?
Suggest is spelled S-U-G-G-E-S-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 13 of the searches for suggest in either form.
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 suggest?
Suggest appears 56 times per million words in written English, the 1,822nd 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 suggest?
- UK /səˈd͡ʒɛst/
- US /sə(ɡ)ˈd͡ʒɛst/
Suggest 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: En-us-suggest.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with suggest?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as suggest from its last stressed vowel (/ɛst/):
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 suggest
- suggests present, singular, he/she/it
- suggesting participle, present
- suggested participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does suggest mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
To imply but stop short of explicitly stating (something).
Are you suggesting that I killed my wife?
- 2
To cause one to suppose (something); to bring to one's mind the idea (of something).
The name "hamburger" suggests that hamburgers originated from Hamburg.
- 3
To explicitly mention (something) as a possibility for consideration, often to recommend it.
This meeting venue was suggested to us by our boss.
- 4
obsoleteTo seduce; to prompt to evil; to tempt.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Suggest in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | behaupten , suggerieren , vorschlagen , empfehlen |
| Portuguese | sugerir , propor |
| Spanish | sugerir |
| French | proposer, suggérer |
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 suggest come from?
Coined based on Latin suggestus, perfect passive participle of suggerō (“bring up, bring under, lay beneath, furnish, supply, excite, advise, suggest”, verb), from sub (“from below, under”) + gerō (“bear, carry”, verb).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).