disintegration

Other forms of disintegration

plural

disintegrations·

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 disintegration

What does disintegration mean?

disintegration means "in a decomposed state". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in disintegration?

disintegration has 5 syllables: di-sin-te-gra-tion. The stress falls on "gra". In IPA it is /dɪˌsɪntəˈɡɹeɪʃən/.

What is another word for disintegration?

Close synonyms include decomposition, dissolution, decay, radioactive decay, annihilation. 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 disintegration a common word?

disintegration 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 disintegration?

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