declaration

Other forms of declaration

plural

declarations·

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 declaration

What does declaration mean?

declaration means "a statement that is emphatic and explicit (spoken or written)". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in declaration?

declaration has 4 syllables: dec-la-ra-tion. The stress falls on "ra". In IPA it is /ˌdɛklɚˈeɪʃən/.

What is another word for declaration?

Close synonyms include contract, announcement, proclamation, annunciation, resolution. 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 declaration a common word?

declaration 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 declaration?

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