congratulation

Other forms of congratulation

plural

congratulations·

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 congratulation

What does congratulation mean?

congratulation means "the act of acknowledging that someone has an occasion for celebration". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in congratulation?

congratulation has 5 syllables: con-grat-u-la-tion. The stress falls on "la". In IPA it is /kənˌɡɹætʃəˈleɪʃən/.

What is another word for congratulation?

Close synonyms include felicitation, felicitation. 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 congratulation a common word?

congratulation 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 congratulation?

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