certification

Other forms of certification

plural

certifications·

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 certification

What does certification mean?

certification means "the act of certifying or bestowing a franchise on". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in certification?

certification has 5 syllables: cer-ti-fi-ca-tion. The stress falls on "ca". In IPA it is /ˌsɝtəfəˈkeɪʃən/.

What is another word for certification?

Close synonyms include enfranchisement, documentation, corroboration, certificate, credential. 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 certification a common word?

certification 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 certification?

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