congregation

Other forms of congregation

plural

congregations·

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 congregation

What does congregation mean?

congregation means "a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in congregation?

congregation has 4 syllables: con-gre-ga-tion. The stress falls on "ga". In IPA it is /ˌkɑŋɡɹəˈɡeɪʃən/.

What is another word for congregation?

Close synonyms include fold, faithful, congregating. 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 congregation a common word?

congregation 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 congregation?

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