description

Other forms of description

plural

descriptions·

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 description

What does description mean?

description means "a statement that represents something in words". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in description?

description has 3 syllables: de-scrip-tion. The stress falls on "scrip". In IPA it is /dɪˈskɹɪpʃən/.

What is another word for description?

Close synonyms include verbal description. 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 description a common word?

description is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. 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 description?

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