alluviation

Questions about alluviation

What does alluviation mean?

alluviation means "the phenomenon of sediment or gravel accumulating".

How many syllables are in alluviation?

alluviation has 6 syllables and divides as al-lu-vi-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 alluviation?

Close synonyms include deposit, sedimentation. 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 alluviation a common word?

alluviation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.