communication

Other forms of communication

plural

communications·

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 communication

What does communication mean?

communication means "the activity of communicating; the activity of conveying information". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in communication?

communication has 5 syllables: com-mu-ni-ca-tion. The stress falls on "ca". In IPA it is /kəˌmjunəˈkeɪʃən/.

What is another word for communication?

Close synonyms include communicating. 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 communication a common word?

communication is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. 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 communication?

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