suspension
sus·pen·sion/səˈspɛnʃən/noun
suspension is spelled S-U-S-P-E-N-S-I-O-N, 3 syllables: sus·pen·sion. The wrong spelling people search most is suspention: about 160 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 44 of all searches for the word. Suspension is a noun meaning “The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended”. The plural of suspension is suspensions.
How many letters and syllables are in suspension?
| Letters | 10: S-U-S-P-E-N-S-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: sus·pen·sion |
| In writing | 17 times per million words; the 4,752nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, suspention, about 160 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 suspension?
Suspension is spelled S-U-S-P-E-N-S-I-O-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 44 of the searches for suspension 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 suspension?
Suspension appears 17 times per million words in written English, the 4,752nd 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 suspension?
- US /səˈspɛnʃən/
Suspension has 3 syllables, split sus·pen·sion in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-suspension.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with suspension?
9 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as suspension from its last stressed vowel (/ɛnʃən/):
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 suspension
- suspensions plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does suspension mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended.
suspension from a hook
- 2
A temporary or conditional delay, interruption or discontinuation.
- 3
The state of a solid or substance produced when its particles are mixed with, but not dissolved in, a fluid, and are capable of separation by straining.
- 4
Thus a kind of silt or sludge.
- 5
The act of keeping a person who is listening in doubt and expectation of what is to follow.
- 6
The temporary barring of a person from a workplace, society, etc. pending investigation into alleged misconduct.
- 7
The process of barring a student from school grounds as a form of punishment (particularly out-of-school suspension).
suspension from school as a disciplinary measure
- 8
The act of or discord produced by prolonging one or more tones of a chord into the chord which follows, thus producing a momentary discord, suspending the concord which the ear expects.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Suspension in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Aussetzung , Suspension , Spannung , Vorhalt , Aufhängung |
| Spanish | suspensión |
| Portuguese | suspensão |
| French | systéme amortisseur |
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 suspension come from?
Borrowed from Late Latin suspensiōnem (“arching, vaulting; suspension”), from suspendēre (“to hang up, to suspend”), from sub- (“under”) + pendere (“to hang, to suspend”), from Proto-Italic *pendō (“to hang, to put in a hanging position”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pénd-e-ti, from *(s)pend- (“to pull; to spin”)). Compare Anglo-Norman suspensiun, French suspension, Occitan suspensio.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).