authentication

1. 1.

   a mark on an article of trade to indicate its origin and authenticity

   Synonymshallmarkassay-mark

   Broadermarker
2. 2.

   validating the authenticity of something or someone

   Synonymscertification

   Broadervalidation

Other forms of authentication

plural

authentications·

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 authentication

What does authentication mean?

authentication means "a mark on an article of trade to indicate its origin and authenticity". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in authentication?

authentication has 5 syllables: au-then-ti-ca-tion. The stress falls on "ca". In IPA it is /ɔˌθɛntəˈkeɪʃən/.

What is another word for authentication?

Close synonyms include hallmark, assay-mark, certification. 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 authentication a common word?

authentication 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 authentication?

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