accretion

Other forms of accretion

plural

accretions·

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 accretion

What does accretion mean?

accretion means "an increase by natural growth or addition". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in accretion?

accretion has 3 syllables: ac-cre-tion. The stress falls on "cre". In IPA it is /əˈkɹiʃən/.

What is another word for accretion?

Close synonyms include accumulation. 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 accretion a common word?

accretion 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 accretion?

1 word rhymes with accretion. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.