castration

Other forms of castration

plural

castrations·

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 castration

What does castration mean?

castration means "neutering a male animal by removing the testicles". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in castration?

castration has 3 syllables: cas-tra-tion. The stress falls on "tra". In IPA it is /ˌkæˈstɹeɪʃən/.

What is another word for castration?

Close synonyms include emasculation, expurgation. 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 castration a common word?

castration 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 castration?

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