suppression
/səˈpɹɛʃən/noun
suppression is spelled S-U-P-P-R-E-S-S-I-O-N. The wrong spelling people search most is supression: about 0 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026). Suppression is a noun meaning “The act or instance of suppressing”. The plural of suppression is suppressions.
How many letters and syllables are in suppression?
| Letters | 11: S-U-P-P-R-E-S-S-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 4.8 times per million words; the 11,541st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, supression (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 suppression?
Suppression is spelled S-U-P-P-R-E-S-S-I-O-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure.
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 suppression?
Suppression appears 4.8 times per million words in written English, the 11,541st 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 suppression?
- US /səˈpɹɛʃən/
- Australia /səˈpɹeʃən/
Suppression has 3 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-suppression.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with suppression?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as suppression from its last stressed vowel (/ɛʃən/):
- session
- profession
- aggression
- obsession
- progression
- compression
- oppression
- concession
- regression
- accession
- hessian
- digression
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 suppression
- suppressions plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does suppression mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The act or instance of suppressing.
- 2
The state of being suppressed.
- 3
A process in which a person consciously excludes anxiety-producing thoughts, feelings, or memories.
- 4
The entirety of acts aimed at stopping or preventing the enemy to execute such unwanted activities like firing, regrouping, observation or others.
- 5
A subconscious adaptation by a person's brain to eliminate the symptoms of disorders of binocular vision such as strabismus, convergence insufficiency and aniseikonia.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Suppression in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Unterdrückung , Verdrängung |
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 suppression come from?
Borrowed from Latin suppressiō.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).