abortion

Other forms of abortion

plural

abortions·

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 abortion

What does abortion mean?

abortion means "termination of pregnancy". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in abortion?

abortion has 3 syllables: a-bor-tion. The stress falls on "bor". In IPA it is /əˈbɔɹʃən/.

What is another word for abortion?

Close synonyms include miscarriage. 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 abortion a common word?

abortion 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.