depletion

Other forms of depletion

plural

depletions·

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 depletion

What does depletion mean?

depletion means "the act of decreasing something markedly". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in depletion?

depletion has 3 syllables: de-ple-tion. The stress falls on "ple". In IPA it is /dɪˈpliʃən/.

Is depletion a common word?

depletion 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 depletion?

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