dehydration

Other forms of dehydration

plural

dehydrations·

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 dehydration

What does dehydration mean?

dehydration means "dryness resulting from the removal of water". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dehydration?

dehydration has 4 syllables: de-hy-dra-tion. The stress falls on "dra". In IPA it is /ˌdihaɪˈdɹeɪʃən/.

What is another word for dehydration?

Close synonyms include desiccation, desiccation, drying up, evaporation. 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 dehydration a common word?

dehydration 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 dehydration?

1 word rhymes with dehydration. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.