confession

1. 1.

   an admission of misdeeds or faults

   Broaderadmission

   Narrowerself-accusation
2. 2.

   a written document acknowledging an offense and signed by the guilty party

   Broaderdocument
3. 3.

   (Roman Catholic Church) the act of a penitent disclosing his sinfulness before a priest in the sacrament of penance in the hope of absolution

   Broaderpenance

   Narrowershrift

   Roman Catholic

4. 4.

   a public declaration of your faith

   Broaderdeclaration
5. 5.

   the document that spells out the belief system of a given church (especially the Reformation churches of the 16th century)

   Broaderreligious doctrine

   NarrowerAugsburg Confession

Other forms of confession

plural

confessions·

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 confession

What does confession mean?

confession means "an admission of misdeeds or faults". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in confession?

confession has 3 syllables: con-fes-sion. The stress falls on "fes". In IPA it is /kənˈfɛʃən/.

Is confession a common word?

confession 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 confession?

1 word rhymes with confession. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.