compensation

Other forms of compensation

plural

compensations·

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 compensation

What does compensation mean?

compensation means "something (such as money) given or received as payment or reparation (as for a service or loss or injury)". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in compensation?

compensation has 4 syllables: com-pen-sa-tion. The stress falls on "sa". In IPA it is /ˌkɑmpənˈseɪʃən/.

What is another word for compensation?

Close synonyms include recompense. 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 compensation a common word?

compensation is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. 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 compensation?

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