excision

Other forms of excision

plural

excisions·

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 excision

What does excision mean?

excision means "the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in excision?

excision has 3 syllables: ex-cis-ion. The stress falls on "cis". In IPA it is /ɪkˈsɪʒən/.

What is another word for excision?

Close synonyms include deletion, cut, ablation, extirpation, cutting out. 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 excision a common word?

excision 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 excision?

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