destruction

Other forms of destruction

plural

destructions·

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 destruction

What does destruction mean?

destruction means "the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in destruction?

destruction has 3 syllables: de-struc-tion. The stress falls on "struc". In IPA it is /dɪˈstɹʌkʃən/.

What is another word for destruction?

Close synonyms include devastation, demolition, wipeout, end, death. 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 destruction a common word?

destruction 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 destruction?

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