assimilation

Other forms of assimilation

plural

assimilations·

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 assimilation

What does assimilation mean?

assimilation means "the state of being assimilated; people of different backgrounds come to see themselves as part of a larger national family". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in assimilation?

assimilation has 5 syllables: as-sim-i-la-tion. The stress falls on "la". In IPA it is /əˌsɪməˈleɪʃən/.

What is another word for assimilation?

Close synonyms include absorption, absorption, acculturation. 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 assimilation a common word?

assimilation is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 assimilation?

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