affiliation

Other forms of affiliation

plural

affiliations·

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 affiliation

What does affiliation mean?

affiliation means "a social or business relationship". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in affiliation?

affiliation has 5 syllables: af-fil-i-a-tion. The stress falls on "a". In IPA it is /əˌfɪliˈeɪʃən/.

What is another word for affiliation?

Close synonyms include association, tie, tie-up. 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 affiliation a common word?

affiliation 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 affiliation?

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