contamination

Other forms of contamination

plural

contaminations·

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 contamination

What does contamination mean?

contamination means "the state of being contaminated". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in contamination?

contamination has 5 syllables: con-tam-i-na-tion. The stress falls on "na". In IPA it is /kənˌtæməˈneɪʃən/.

What is another word for contamination?

Close synonyms include taint, contaminant, pollution. 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.

What is the opposite of contamination?

The recorded antonyms are decontamination.

Is contamination a common word?

contamination 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 contamination?

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