desalination

What does desalination mean?

desalination means "the removal of salt (especially from sea water)".

How many syllables are in desalination?

desalination has 5 syllables: de-sa-li-na-tion. The stress falls on "na". In IPA it is /diˌseɪlɪˈneɪʃən/.

What is another word for desalination?

Close synonyms include desalinization, desalinisation. 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 desalination a common word?

desalination is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met 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 desalination?

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

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for desalination come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.