crepitation

Questions about crepitation

What does crepitation mean?

crepitation means "the sharp sound of snapping noises".

How many syllables are in crepitation?

crepitation has 5 syllables and divides as cre-pi-ta-ti-on under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for crepitation?

Close synonyms include crackle, crackling. 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 crepitation a common word?

crepitation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.