vindication
vin·dic·at·ion/ˌvɪndəˈkeɪʃən/noun
vindication is spelled V-I-N-D-I-C-A-T-I-O-N, 4 syllables: vin·dic·at·ion. The wrong spelling people search most is vendication: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 72 of all searches for the word. Vindication is a noun meaning “An act of asserting or maintaining; an assertion”. The plural of vindication is vindications.
How many letters and syllables are in vindication?
| Letters | 11: V-I-N-D-I-C-A-T-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4: vin·dic·at·ion |
| In writing | about once in every 1 million words; the 31,549th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, vendication, about 20 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 vindication?
Vindication is spelled V-I-N-D-I-C-A-T-I-O-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 72 of the searches for vindication 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 vindication?
Vindication appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 31,549th 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 vindication?
- UK /ˌvɪndɪˈkeɪʃn̩/
- US /ˌvɪndəˈkeɪʃən/
Vindication has 4 syllables, split vin·dic·at·ion in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-vindication.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with vindication?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as vindication from its last stressed vowel (/eɪʃən/):
- situation
- association
- population
- administration
- operation
- organization
- application
- location
- generation
- foundation
- conversation
- investigation
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 vindication
- vindications plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does vindication mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An act of asserting or maintaining; an assertion.
- 2
An argument, fact, piece of evidence, etc., which vindicates (“clears someone of an accusation or suspicion; justifies a belief or claim by providing evidence or proof”).
- 3
The action of vindicating; also, the state of being vindicated.
- 4
A feeling of deserved satisfaction that comes from being proven correct.
When they finally admitted their actions, Anne felt vindication and walked with pride once again.
- 5
A legal claim for a declaration that one is the owner of a thing or the holder of a right; an action in rem.
Coordinate term: condiction
- 6
obsoleteThe action of avenging or taking revenge.
- 7
obsoleterareThe action of setting free; deliverance.
- 8
obsoleterarePunishment, retribution.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate vindication?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of vindication: vindicat..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Vindication in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | justification , vendication |
| German | Beweis, Eintreten, Entlastung, Nachweis, Rechtfertigung, Rehabilitation |
| Portuguese | vindicação, reivindicação, justificação |
| Spanish | vindicación, justificación |
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 vindication come from?
From Late Middle English vendicacion, vyndicacion, vyndycacion (“assertion of a claim”), from Old French vindication (“revenge, vengeance”) (modern dialectal French vindication), or from Medieval Latin vendicātio, both from Latin vindicātiō (“avenging; defence, protection, vindication; punishment; etc.”), from vindicō (“to avenge; to take revenge on; to protect from; etc.”) + -tiō (suffix forming nouns from verbs, denoting processes, actions, or results of actions).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).