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 and divides as af-fix-a-ti-on under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

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.