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 and divides as de-ra-ci-na-ti-on under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

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.