diction

Other forms of diction

plural

dictions·

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 diction

What does diction mean?

diction means "the articulation of speech regarded from the point of view of its intelligibility to the audience". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in diction?

diction has 2 syllables: dic-tion. The stress falls on "dic". In IPA it is /ˈdɪkʃən/.

What is another word for diction?

Close synonyms include enunciation, wording, phrasing, phraseology, choice of words. 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 diction a common word?

diction 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 diction?

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