deviation

Other forms of deviation

plural

deviations·

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 deviation

What does deviation mean?

deviation means "a variation that deviates from the standard or norm". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in deviation?

deviation has 4 syllables: de-vi-a-tion. The stress falls on "a". In IPA it is /ˌdiviˈeɪʃən/.

What is another word for deviation?

Close synonyms include divergence, departure, difference, deviance, diversion. 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 deviation a common word?

deviation is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 deviation?

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