despoilation

Questions about despoilation

What does despoilation mean?

despoilation means "the act of stripping and taking by force".

How many syllables are in despoilation?

despoilation has 5 syllables and divides as de-spo-i-la-tion 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 despoilation?

Close synonyms include spoil, spoliation, spoilation, despoilment, despoliation. 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 despoilation a common word?

despoilation 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.