correctional

1. 1.

   concerned with or providing correction

   “a correctional institution”

   Similarpunitive

Questions about correctional

What does correctional mean?

correctional means "concerned with or providing correction".

How many syllables are in correctional?

correctional has 4 syllables: cor-rec-tio-nal. The stress falls on "rec". In IPA it is /kɚˈɛkʃənəl/.

Is correctional a common word?

correctional 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 correctional?

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