evacuation

Other forms of evacuation

plural

evacuations·

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 evacuation

What does evacuation mean?

evacuation means "the act of removing the contents of something". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in evacuation?

evacuation has 5 syllables: e-vac-u-a-tion. The stress falls on "a". In IPA it is /ɪˌvækjəˈweɪʃən/.

What is another word for evacuation?

Close synonyms include emptying, voidance, elimination, excretion, excreting. 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 evacuation a common word?

evacuation 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.

What rhymes with evacuation?

1 word rhymes with evacuation. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.