desiccation

Other forms of desiccation

plural

desiccations·

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 desiccation

What does desiccation mean?

desiccation means "dryness resulting from the removal of water". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in desiccation?

desiccation has 4 syllables: des-ic-ca-tion. The stress falls on "ca". In IPA it is /ˌdɛsəˈkeɪʃən/.

What is another word for desiccation?

Close synonyms include dehydration, dehydration, drying up, evaporation. 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 desiccation a common word?

desiccation 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 desiccation?

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