admission

Other forms of admission

plural

admissions·

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 admission

What does admission mean?

admission means "the act of admitting someone to enter". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in admission?

admission has 3 syllables: ad-mis-sion. The stress falls on "mis". In IPA it is /ædˈmɪʃən/.

What is another word for admission?

Close synonyms include admittance, entrance fee, admission charge, admission fee, admission price. 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 admission a common word?

admission is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. 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 admission?

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