affliction

Other forms of affliction

plural

afflictions·

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 affliction

What does affliction mean?

affliction means "a state of great suffering and distress due to adversity". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in affliction?

affliction has 3 syllables: af-flic-tion. The stress falls on "flic". In IPA it is /əˈflɪkʃən/.

Is affliction a common word?

affliction 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 affliction?

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