suggestion

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The English entry for suggestion is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /səˈd͡ʒɛst.ʃən/. Corpus data places it at rank #4,901 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for suggestion, with forms such as "sgugestion", "ssuggestion", and "sugegstion". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "suggestive", "suggestions", "suggesting", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English suggestion, from Anglo-Norman suggestioun, sugestiun, from Latin suggestiō, from suggerō (“suggest”, verb), from Latin sub- (“from below, up”) + gerō (“to bring”). Equivalent to suggest + -ion. Related to English up-, cast. 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 suggestion, spelled S-U-G-G-E-S-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.