benefaction

Questions about benefaction

What does benefaction mean?

benefaction means "a contribution of money or assistance". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in benefaction?

benefaction has 5 syllables and divides as be-ne-fac-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 benefaction?

Close synonyms include benevolence. 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 benefaction a common word?

benefaction 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.