suggestion
sug·ges·tion/sə(ɡ)ˈd͡ʒɛs.t͡ʃən/noun
suggestion is spelled S-U-G-G-E-S-T-I-O-N, 3 syllables: sug·ges·tion. The wrong spelling people search most is sugestion: about 70 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 16 of all searches for the word. Suggestion is a noun meaning “Something suggested (with subsequent adposition being for)”. The plural of suggestion is suggestions.
How many letters and syllables are in suggestion?
| Letters | 10: S-U-G-G-E-S-T-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: sug·ges·tion |
| In writing | 17 times per million words; the 4,838th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, sugestion, about 70 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 suggestion?
Suggestion is spelled S-U-G-G-E-S-T-I-O-N. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 14 of the searches for suggestion 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 suggestion?
Suggestion appears 17 times per million words in written English, the 4,838th 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 suggestion?
- UK /səˈd͡ʒɛst.ʃən/
- UK [səˈd͡ʒɛʃ.t͡ʃən]
- US /sə(ɡ)ˈd͡ʒɛs.t͡ʃən/
Suggestion has 3 syllables, split sug·ges·tion in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-suggestion.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-suggestion.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with suggestion?
3 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as suggestion from its last stressed vowel (/ɛstʃən/):
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 suggestion
- suggestions plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does suggestion mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Something suggested (with subsequent adposition being for)
make a suggestion
- 2
The act of suggesting.
Suggestion often works better than explicit demand.
- 3
Something implied, which the mind is liable to take as fact.
He’s somehow picked up the suggestion that I like peanuts.
- 4
The act of exercising control over a hypnotised subject by communicating some belief or impulse by means of words or gestures; the idea so suggested.
- 5
Information, insinuation, speculation, as opposed to a sworn testimony and evidence.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Suggestion in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | suggestion, proposition |
| German | Vorschlag , Suggestion |
| Portuguese | sugestão, proposta |
| Spanish | sugerencia, propuesta , sugestión |
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 suggestion come from?
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.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).