digression

Other forms of digression

plural

digressions·

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 digression

What does digression mean?

digression means "a message that departs from the main subject". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in digression?

digression has 3 syllables: di-gres-sion. The stress falls on "gres". In IPA it is /daɪˈɡɹɛʃən/.

What is another word for digression?

Close synonyms include aside, excursus, divagation, parenthesis, 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 digression a common word?

digression 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.

What rhymes with digression?

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