congestion

Other forms of congestion

plural

congestions·

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 congestion

What does congestion mean?

congestion means "excessive accumulation of blood or other fluid in a body part". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in congestion?

congestion has 3 syllables: con-ges-tion. The stress falls on "ges". In IPA it is /kənˈdʒɛstʃən/.

What is another word for congestion?

Close synonyms include over-crowding. 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 congestion a common word?

congestion 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 congestion?

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