devastation

Other forms of devastation

plural

devastations·

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 devastation

What does devastation mean?

devastation means "the state of being decayed or destroyed". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in devastation?

devastation has 4 syllables: dev-a-sta-tion. The stress falls on "sta". In IPA it is /ˌdɛvəˈsteɪʃən/.

What is another word for devastation?

Close synonyms include desolation, desolation, ravaging, destruction. 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 devastation a common word?

devastation is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for 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 devastation?

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