emulation

Other forms of emulation

plural

emulations·

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 emulation

What does emulation mean?

emulation means "ambition to equal or excel". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in emulation?

emulation has 4 syllables: em-u-la-tion. The stress falls on "la". In IPA it is /ˌɛmjəˈleɪʃən/.

Is emulation a common word?

emulation 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 emulation?

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