decrepitation

1. 1.

   the crackling or breaking up of certain crystals when they are heated

   Broadercrackle

Other forms of decrepitation

plural

decrepitations·

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 decrepitation

What does decrepitation mean?

decrepitation means "the crackling or breaking up of certain crystals when they are heated".

How many syllables are in decrepitation?

decrepitation has 6 syllables: de-cre-pi-ta-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

Is decrepitation a common word?

decrepitation 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.