affixation

Other forms of affixation

plural

affixations·

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 affixation

What does affixation mean?

affixation means "the result of adding an affix to a root word". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in affixation?

affixation has 5 syllables: af-fix-a-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for affixation?

Close synonyms include attachment. 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 affixation a common word?

affixation 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.