suspicion

Other forms of suspicion

plural

suspicions·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about suspicion

What does suspicion mean?

suspicion means "an impression that something might be the case". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in suspicion?

suspicion has 3 syllables: su-spic-ion. The stress falls on "spic". In IPA it is /səˈspɪʃən/.

What is another word for suspicion?

Close synonyms include intuition, hunch, misgiving, mistrust, distrust. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is suspicion a common word?

suspicion is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.