castigation

Other forms of castigation

plural

castigations·

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 castigation

What does castigation mean?

castigation means "a severe scolding". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in castigation?

castigation has 5 syllables and divides as ca-sti-ga-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 castigation?

Close synonyms include earful, bawling out, chewing out, upbraiding, going-over. 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 castigation a common word?

castigation 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.