disputation

Other forms of disputation

plural

disputations·

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 disputation

What does disputation mean?

disputation means "the formal presentation of a stated proposition and the opposition to it (usually followed by a vote)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in disputation?

disputation has 4 syllables: di-spu-ta-tion. The stress falls on "spu". In IPA it is /dɪˈspjuˈteɪʃən/.

What is another word for disputation?

Close synonyms include debate, public debate, controversy, contention, contestation. 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 disputation a common word?

disputation 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 disputation?

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