suspension
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "suspension", 10-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Hunspell error dictionaries, and usage frequency ranked against the top 100,000 English words in the Wordfreq corpus. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "suspension" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "suspension" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
suspension is aEnglishnoun. It means: The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended. Pronounced /səˈspɛnʃən/. It ranks #4,804 in English word frequency.
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| Headword | suspension |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /səˈspɛnʃən/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #4,804 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The English entry for suspension is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /səˈspɛnʃən/. Corpus data places it at rank #4,804 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 16 documented wrong-spelling variants for suspension, with forms such as "ssupension", "ssuspension", and "supsension". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: 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-E… 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 suspension, spelled S-U-S-P-E-N-S-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended.
- 2A temporary or conditional delay, interruption or discontinuation.
- 3The 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.
- 4Thus a kind of silt or sludge.
- 5The act of keeping a person who is listening in doubt and expectation of what is to follow.
- 6The temporary barring of a person from a workplace, society, etc. pending investigation into alleged misconduct.
- 7The process of barring a student from school grounds as a form of punishment (particularly out-of-school suspension).
- 8The 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.
- 9A stay or postponement of the execution of a sentence, usually by letters of suspension granted on application to the Lord Ordinary.
- 10A topological space derived from another by taking the product of the original space with an interval and collapsing each end of the product to a point.
- 11A function derived, in a standard way, from another, such that the instant function’s domain and codomain are suspensions of the original function’s.
- 12The system of springs and shock absorbers connected to the wheels in an automobile, which allows the vehicle to move smoothly with reduced shock to its occupants.
Etymology
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.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ssupension,ssuspension,supsension,susepnsion,suspenison,suspennsion,suspensino,suspensionn,suspensoin,suspenssion,suspention,suspesnion,suspnesion,susppension,susspension,usspension
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Misspelling Variants of "suspension"
Frequency rank: #4,804 in English
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