etiolation

Other forms of etiolation

plural

etiolations·

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 etiolation

What does etiolation mean?

etiolation means "a pale and sickly appearance". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in etiolation?

etiolation has 6 syllables and divides as e-ti-o-la-ti-on under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is etiolation a common word?

etiolation is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.