suppose
/səˈpoʊz/verb
suppose is spelled S-U-P-P-O-S-E. The wrong spelling people search most is supose: about 70 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 15 of all searches for the word. Suppose is a verb meaning “To take for granted; to conclude, with less than absolute supporting data; to believe”.
How many letters and syllables are in suppose?
| Letters | 7: S-U-P-P-O-S-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 36 times per million words; the 2,669th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, supose, 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 suppose?
Suppose is spelled S-U-P-P-O-S-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 15 of the searches for suppose 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 suppose?
Suppose appears 36 times per million words in written English, the 2,669th 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 suppose?
- UK /səˈpəʊz/
- UK [səˈpʰəʊz]
- US /səˈpoʊz/
Suppose 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-suppose.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with suppose?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as suppose from its last stressed vowel (/oʊz/):
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 suppose
- supposes present, singular, he/she/it
- supposing participle, present
- supposed participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does suppose mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
To take for granted; to conclude, with less than absolute supporting data; to believe.
I suppose we all agree that this is the best solution.
- 2
To theorize or hypothesize.
Suppose that A implies B and B implies C. Then A implies C.
- 3
To imagine; to believe; to receive as true.
- 4
obsoleteTo reckon to be, to account or esteem as.
- 5
To require to exist or to be true; to imply by the laws of thought or of nature.
Purpose supposes foresight.
- 6
obsoleteTo put by fraud in the place of another; to substitute fraudulently.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Suppose in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | supposer, imaginer |
| German | annehmen, vermuten, vermeinen , unterstellen |
| Portuguese | supor |
| Spanish | suponer |
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 suppose come from?
From Middle English supposen, borrowed from Old French supposer, equivalent to prefix sub- (“under”) + poser (“to place”); corresponding in meaning to Latin supponere (“to put under, to substitute, falsify, counterfeit”), suppositum. See pose.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).