suggestion: meaning and words from its letters
10 letters · 12 letter points · starts with S · ends with N
Meaning of suggestion
noun
- countable
Something suggested (with subsequent adposition being for)
Example: make a suggestion
- uncountable
The act of suggesting.
Example: Suggestion often works better than explicit demand.
- countable
Something implied, which the mind is liable to take as fact.
Example: He’s somehow picked up the suggestion that I like peanuts.
- countable, uncountable
The act of exercising control over a hypnotised subject by communicating some belief or impulse by means of words or gestures; the idea so suggested.
Listed forms: suggestions.
Source: Wiktionary — suggestion.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for suggestion.
noun
a proposal offered for acceptance or rejection
noun
a just detectable amount
noun
persuasion formulated as a suggestion
noun
the act of inducing hypnosis
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is suggestion in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of suggestion
S(1) + U(1) + G(2) + G(2) + E(1) + S(1) + T(1) + I(1) + O(1) + N(1) = 12 points.
This is a sum of letter values without board bonuses or word multipliers. A blank tile is worth zero: subtract the value of each letter supplied by a blank. The score does not establish game validity. Full letter-value table.
Anagrams of suggestion
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
No other single-word anagram was found in our standard list.
Shorter words from suggestion
307 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in suggestion. Showing up to 24, longest first.