deracination

Other forms of deracination

plural

deracinations·

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 deracination

What does deracination mean?

deracination means "to move something from its natural environment". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in deracination?

deracination has 6 syllables: de-ra-ci-na-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for deracination?

Close synonyms include displacement, extirpation, excision. 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 deracination a common word?

deracination 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.