crystallisation

Questions about crystallisation

What does crystallisation mean?

crystallisation means "the formation of crystals".

How many syllables are in crystallisation?

crystallisation has 6 syllables and divides as cry-stal-li-sa-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 crystallisation?

Close synonyms include crystallization, crystallizing. 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 crystallisation a common word?

crystallisation 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.