exception

Other forms of exception

plural

exceptions·

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 exception

What does exception mean?

exception means "a deliberate act of omission". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in exception?

exception has 3 syllables: ex-cep-tion. The stress falls on "cep". In IPA it is /ɪkˈsɛpʃən/.

What is another word for exception?

Close synonyms include exclusion, elision. 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 exception a common word?

exception is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. 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 exception?

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