appellation

Other forms of appellation

plural

appellations·

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 appellation

What does appellation mean?

appellation means "identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in appellation?

appellation has 4 syllables: ap-pel-la-tion. The stress falls on "la". In IPA it is /ˌæpəˈleɪʃən/.

What is another word for appellation?

Close synonyms include denomination, designation, appellative. 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 appellation a common word?

appellation 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.

What rhymes with appellation?

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