excommunication

Other forms of excommunication

plural

excommunications·

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 excommunication

What does excommunication mean?

excommunication means "the state of being excommunicated". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in excommunication?

excommunication has 6 syllables: ex-com-mu-ni-ca-tion. The stress falls on "ca". In IPA it is /ˌɛkskəˌmjunəˈkeɪʃən/.

What is another word for excommunication?

Close synonyms include exclusion, censure, excision. 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 excommunication a common word?

excommunication 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.

What rhymes with excommunication?

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