aberration

Other forms of aberration

plural

aberrations·

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 aberration

What does aberration mean?

aberration means "a state or condition markedly different from the norm". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in aberration?

aberration has 4 syllables: ab-er-ra-tion. The stress falls on "ra". In IPA it is /ˌæbɚˈeɪʃən/.

What is another word for aberration?

Close synonyms include aberrance, aberrancy, deviance, distortion, optical aberration. 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 aberration a common word?

aberration is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with aberration?

133 words rhyme with aberration. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.