excogitation

Other forms of excogitation

plural

excogitations·

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 excogitation

What does excogitation mean?

excogitation means "thinking something out with care in order to achieve complete understanding of it". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in excogitation?

excogitation has 6 syllables: ex-co-gi-ta-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for excogitation?

Close synonyms include invention, innovation, conception, design. 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 excogitation a common word?

excogitation is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.