defamation

Other forms of defamation

plural

defamations·

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 defamation

What does defamation mean?

defamation means "a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in defamation?

defamation has 4 syllables: def-a-ma-tion. The stress falls on "ma". In IPA it is /ˌdɛfəˈmeɪʃən/.

What is another word for defamation?

Close synonyms include calumny, calumniation, obloquy, traducement, hatchet job. 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 defamation a common word?

defamation is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 defamation?

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